Quote Originally Posted by cassiesmom View Post
The only ones I knew were "grats" -- because of college students in my family; and "BYOD". I didn't know twerking till we talked about it on facebook. My nieces use "adorbs" a lot -- why they can't just say the entire word I don't know. I guess we have to shorten everything to fit it into a 140-character tweet or onto a smartphone screen. What has happened to the English language? I don't get it.
The good thing is English is flexible - and I am guessing in 5 years, adorbs will be completely passé! But at least we English speakers add and drop words, and do not try to keep everything new out! I was also relieved to read that this is just for the online dictionary, these words have not yet necessarily made it into the OED!