LONDON — OMG! The exclamatory online abbreviation has won the approval of the Oxford English Dictionary. The term — short for “Oh my God” or “Oh my gosh” — is one of dozens of new entries in the ...

Despite the fact that dictionaries are a treasury of linguistic and extra-linguistic information, most people believe that they are just meant for confirming meanings of words, and nothing more. In a ...

“What is another word for `synonym`?” somebody asked me the other day. “What is the abbreviation of `abbreviation`?” I retorted. We laughed it off. But abbreviations are no laughing matter.

OMG! LOL! The venerable Oxford English Dictionary approves of the three-letter, Internet-inspired expressions you use for "Oh, my God!" and "Laughing out loud." It is adding them to the authoritative ...

OMG! The exclamatory online abbreviation has won the approval of the Oxford English Dictionary. The term -- short for "Oh my God" -- is one of dozens of new entries in the authoritative reference book ...

Some 100 scholars handed over a joint letter Tuesday to press and education authorities over 239 terms using Latin alphabet letters in the sixth edition of the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, ...

OMG, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has approved the additions of the two exclamatory online abbreviations found in this sentence, LOL. OMG, short for Oh My God or Oh My Gosh, and LOL, short for ...

“What is another word for 'synonym'?” somebody asked me the other day. “What is the abbreviation of 'abbreviation'?” I retorted. We laughed it off. But abbreviations are no laughing matter.