The Oxford English Dictionary now includes the ♥ symbol, the first graphical symbol to signify a word in the dictionary's 127 year history.
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'The new sense added to heart v. in this update may be the first English usage to develop via the medium of T-shirts and bumper-stickers [...] From these beginnings, heart v. has gone on to live an existence in more traditional genres of literature as a colloquial synonym for ‘to love’.'
Via OED
This got me thinking about other symbols that could be added to the OED in the next update:
Via Daily Telegraph and The Oxford English Dictionary
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Vashti
'The new sense added to heart v. in this update may be the first English usage to develop via the medium of T-shirts and bumper-stickers [...] From these beginnings, heart v. has gone on to live an existence in more traditional genres of literature as a colloquial synonym for ‘to love’.'
Via OED
This got me thinking about other symbols that could be added to the OED in the next update:
More than coffee
Feel free to drop me a line, words, symbols and puns accepted.
Vashti
I don't think the OED should start including hand gestures - that would open up a major can of worms.
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