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"Tweet", "dad dancing" and "geekery" are three of more than 1,200 new or revised words in the latest version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) released on Friday. 周五出版的最新版《牛津英语词典》收录修编了1200多条新词汇，包括"Tweet" The dictionary said in a quarterly update on its website that it had expanded its entries for "follow" (verb), "follower" (noun), and "tweet" (noun and verb) to include social media terms that have exploded in the past six years. 《牛津英语词典》每季度更新一次，该词典在网站上表示，新版扩充了多条词汇，如"follow" 关注 According to the dictionary, "tweet" is now a posting on the social networking service Twitter as well as its more traditional meaning: a brief high-pitched sound. 根据新版词典，现在"tweet"一词既有网络社交服务“推特”的含义，又保留传统“短暂而尖锐之声”的意思。 "This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a new word needs to be current for ten years before consideration for inclusion," said the OED's chief editor John Simpson in a statement. "But it seems to be catching on." 《牛津英文词典》主编约翰-辛普森在声明中表示，“这至少打破了《牛津英语词典》的一个老规矩，就是一个新词从出现到考虑是否要被收入词典，需要十年时间。但现在看起来词典收录速度好像跟上发展了。” | 
