Instant Messaging clients like Messenger and ICQ once made terms like WTF and LOL mainstream, as they were used in person-to-person chats, but it can be said that the rise of social media has meant that these terms now live in the public domain, and are becoming ubiquitous in today’s culture. Oxford Dictionary agrees, as they’ve added a whole slew of WTF words to the library.
With approximately 600,000 words, the Oxford English Dictionary is the longest official dictionary; as stated by The Guinness Book of World Records.
The committed empire of words now includes ♥ and LOL as real words worthy of etymological recording. Even other words such as OMG are included, citing that they “are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications,” and have entered the mainstream because of how easy they are to use. OMG! That is so true!
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