{"id":161,"date":"2008-07-08T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashokkarania.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-07-08T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T20:27:19","slug":"word-sub-prime-enters-oxford-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/word-sub-prime-enters-oxford-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Word &#8216;Sub-Prime&#8217; Enters Oxford Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every year Oxford Dictionary adds new words to its corpus. Considering the global situation, it is no surprise that the new words this season include &#8216;Sub-Prime Mortgage&#8217; and &#8216;Credit Crunch&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other new words include:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Gorilla &#8211; the dominant contender within a particular sphere or activity<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Locavore &#8211; those who eat only locally grown or produced food<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Freegans &#8211; \u00a0those who seek to retrieve and use discarded food and other goods<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Vanity Sizing &#8211; assigning smaller sizes to clothing than is really the case to encourage sales<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Slebs &#8211; Celebrities<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Fascinators &#8211; an item of ladies millinery<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Muffin Top &#8211; a roll of fat visible above the top of a pair of women\u2019s tight-fitting low-waisted trousers<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Bragging Rights<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Custard Creams<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/2008\/07\/04\/read-the-news-entries-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary-91466-21226461\/\">New Entries In Oxford Dictionary<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Every year Oxford Dictionary adds new words to its corpus. Considering the global situation, it is no surprise that the new words this season include &#8216;Sub-Prime Mortgage&#8217; and &#8216;Credit Crunch&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0 The other new words include:\u00a0 Gorilla &#8211; the dominant contender within a particular sphere or activity\u00a0 Locavore &#8211; those who eat only locally grown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}