"Podcast" Makes It Into Dictionary

It is official. Words like "wiki", "podcast", and "phishing" have made the latest cut.

Technology-inspired terms like "podcast", "phishing" and "wiki" are among the newest additions to the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

A "podcast" is the increasingly popular form of audio broadcast downloaded to be heard via digital audio players, "phishing" is the practice of sending fraudulent emails to seek personal or financial details and a "wiki" is a website or online database developed by a community of users.

With the nearly 130 new additions published Wednesday, the massive dictionary now includes about 355,000 words and phrases used in the English-speaking world.

What is really sad about this is I may be the only one of my social group (aside from the nerds) that know what the words mean.

Podcast. Phishing. Wiki.

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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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What else do I do? I talk out loud, record it, and post it on line. I chatter about all kinds of things. Some of the things are nerdy, some professional, and some of them are very much NSFW. Why? Because do them for myself and my non-work life. You can be the judge.