Grime? Damfino, I’m more of a Motown guy, but I can tell you that revision of the damn words has generated some interesting new material (including damfino itself, representing a colloquial pronunciation of ‘damned if I know’). This later use is chiefly associated with Multicultural London English, but has apparently become more widespread having been popularized by lyrics in grime music. Put this together and it should mean there’s enough here to interest all the galdem, and all the mandemtoo words for women collectively and men collectively, originally from the Caribbean and dating back to the early 20 th century, but more recently used in Britain to refer to a person’s female or male friends or close associates. And we have a football-themed batch too, to help everyone get to grips with the necessary soccer-speak ahead of the World Cup later this year.
There are also new entries resulting from our Monitor Lexicography programme, where we review databases, corpora, social media, and even failed searches on oed.com, to analyse the language of the moment and ensure we’re providing our readers with what they need. As usual, new entries have been created as part of our wide-ranging revision process, and we’ll talk about some interesting additions in the damn, damned, etc.
#Monity dictionary update#
This quarterly update for the OED is top banana, no doubt about it. OED September 2022 release notes: New Words
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