Clicktivists and Fidget Spinners – New Additions to Oxford Dictionaries

Check out this quirky list of new words added to the dictionary.

Language is a living organism, constantly replenishing itself to stay abreast of developments in the world around it. Word formation can occur through borrowing, calque, compounding, blending, clipping, backformation, conversion, coinage and derivation, acronyms or hypocorisms.

https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/press/news/2017/9/21/fidget-spinner-generation-z-new-words-update%2F

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