The latest update of the OED, the Oxford English Dictionary, was published on March 24 and it contains some good news for those in the back row in English class. Four new initialisms (a new term for me and my spellcheck) have made it to the official listings of confirmed units of the English language: OMG, FYI, LOL, and WAG. (Oh My God [or Goodness], For Your Information, Laughing Out Loud, Wives and Girlfriends)
Go figure.
It turns out that these aren't the first. Who knew?
It seems that BFF (Best Friends Forever) and TMI (Too Much Information) had already assumed the mantle of worthy wordness.
If I understand the explanation correctly, the OED will let these texting gimzos in if they make a transition to written and/or spoken forms from being exclusively in the online domain.
Awesome, dude. IMHO.
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