"'This quarter's release of newly revised etymologies once again provides snapshots of the early linguistic history of English.'"
"'There is a very decent crop of words first recorded in Old English (from the earliest surviving records to approximately 1150).'"
"'The action of scrolling continuously and compulsively through large quantities of upsetting or worrying online news, or content on a social media platform.'"
"'The verb doomscroll appeared one day after the noun, but it took until 2020 before a person was described as a doomscroller.'"
The Oxford English Dictionary's latest update includes more than 500 new words and phrases. Notable additions are 'play play', meaning to waste time, and 'glitchiness', referring to the quality of being prone to glitches. The term 'jelly' has been updated to also mean jealous. Many new words have roots in Old English, showcasing the language's evolution. New terms like 'futurescape' and 'doomscrolling' reflect modern behaviors and concepts, with 'doomscroll' first appearing on Twitter in 2020.
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