'Skibidi,' 'delulu' make their way into Cambridge Dictionary
'Skibidi,' 'delulu' make their way into Cambridge Dictionary
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'Skibidi,' 'delulu' make their way into Cambridge Dictionary – DW – 08/18/2025
The latest additions to the world's largest online dictionary, among 6,000 others, show how much internet culture is changing the English language.
it always amuses me when people complain about stuff like this
words that people use are being put in the big list of words that people use??? oh noes!!!
Without proper steering, English is being driven by vapid influencers and not linguists. People complain about inconsistencies a lot, and yet more arbitrary additions by someone seeking relevance is how we 'progress' forward. It's like a kangaroo driving a bus.
There should be a time limit for the addition of new words. If a word can sustain, let's say, 10 years of use then it can be put down for all of eternity. We have an urban dictionary for most nonsense words.
Took a helluva long time for ain't and y'all to make it into the big book o words.
I don't get why modern slang is being thrown in so fast.
"aint aint a word and I aint gonna say it"
According to my grandmother her grandmother used to chastise folks for using the word ain't, all I gotta say to that is ain't that a kick in the head.
You flamdrabs..The flarnibulous sprockle will wumble the glibberflats if you don't snorp
guess they should add these words because someone said em.
It makes them more "real." Official, like.
It's silly anyway. They put "jiggy" in there back in the 90's and nobody uses that word at all anymore. In 10-20 years, will we still see/hear these? 🤷♂️
I definitely have said “gettin jiggy” at least once in the last two years. Maybe ironically, but it is part of my vernacular.