THERE are some schools of thought that may be shocked to find the likes of “bants” and “hangry” creeping into the online OED.
But really this is “NBD” (no big deal).
The whole point of language is that it’s one of the most effective ways of communication and therefore as culture develops, new words and meanings must be found to reflect our ever-changing lives.
Language shifts and evolves and this should be celebrated, but there is always the possibility these new additions will have some folk in the dreaming spires deciding it’s already “wine o’clock”. I’ll drink to that.
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