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‘Thirst trap’ and ‘edgelord’ are now in the dictionary — why haven't other words made it?

Some words, such as 'nibling', have been around for decades and yet they are still absent from the dictionary. Roger J. Kreuz thinks he knows why

gaa

Eimear Ryan: 2017 - A year when women made themselves heard

general

Lordy! James Comey quote lights up Twitter

Nightmare of wasting bureaucracy’s time at the Irish passport office in London

Sports coverage goes from the sublime to the superfluous

world

QUIRKY WORLD... Vice-president bides his time responding to prom invite

Alt-country singers living the Americana dream

New albums from five acts show a genre thriving on the best US influences, says Gerry Quinn

Wed, 28 Dec, 2011

Bromance, crowdsourcing enter dictionary

CONCERNS over climate change and financial matters have become sufficiently widespread to take words and phrases associated with them into the latest edition of a major dictionary.

Fri, 26 Aug, 2011

Israeli invasion cannot be described as ‘war’

HENRY GUTERMAN (Irish Examiner letters, August 24) objects to the use of the word ‘murder’ to describe Lebanese civilian casualties and goes on say that this was ‘war’.

Tue, 29 Aug, 2006