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OMG! The OED has been updated

The Oxford English Dictionary's latest update to OED Online is now available. Highlights include the origins of I ♥, muffin tops, ego-surfing, and topically, the royal 'we'.

The current release brings the percentage of the OED that has been revised above the 30% mark, and we have now come to the end of editing the letter 'R'. With over 645 senses run is now the largest single entry in the dictionary, half as large again as the next-biggest word put (the verb).

Read the Editor's introduction to the update, information on the new words, plus much more. Or why not take a look at what the Editor and other OED lexicographers have to say about the update in our new range of short videos?

Click on the latest update of the OED in our What's New section for a full list of new entries from across the alphabet.