Indian food essentials chana and chana dal are among the many new entries in the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’ (OED). The update had unveiled on Tuesday.
Chickpeas (chana) and the split chickpea lentils (chana dal) join the vast list of more than 600 other words and phrases that the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary has deemed popular enough to be included in its quarterly update.
The words in the world’s definitive guide to the evolving English language covers everything from lifestyle and current affairs to the educational world.
The other new entries include a batch of tennis-related words like “forced error” as well as slang such as “bagel”, which refers to a score in a set of six games to love.
In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries had announced ‘post-truth’ as its “Word of the Year”.
A new sense of woke, which was shortlisted for ‘Word of the Year’, has also been added, meaning “alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice”.
Its use by supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, and in particular the phrase “stay woke”, is thought to have introduced the word to a broader audience.
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