Vision In Blue

Scrabble, in all their infinite wisdom, have added some new... well, let's call them "words"... into the official Scrabble vocabulary. It hasn't gone down well with some people, I can't say I'm bothered either way... but since seeing the list I have added a few new words into my vocab. The list goes partly like this... for ease of use the word will come first, definition second, my opinion/waffle afterwards. Bezzy  -  best friend  - I'm fine with this one, I do however think this is probably out of the Liverpool regional edition of the Scrabble Dictionary. Cakeages  -  charges in a restaurant for serving cake brought in from outside  - What sort of a**hole places charge you to bring in a cake? Never been to one, would probably walk out if they dared to try. Cakehole  -  mouth  - As in "shut your cakehole"... how is this not already in there? I use it frequently. Dench  -  excellent  - Whaaaaaaaaat? [Please imagine ...

I read an article in The Bookseller about how Collins have decided to add "words" to their dictionary. I say "words" because they're finding them on Twitter. It feels like a bit of a gimmick to me, although I'm not sure what they are looking to achieve from it. I'm fairly dependent on social media and out of the nine words I've only heard of two [three-ish]. Who is using them so much that they have come up as possible new dictionary words?! So here are the words and their definitions as picked by Collins... Adorkable - dorky in an adorable way. Fatberg - a large mass of solid waste, grease etc, clogging a sewage system. Gaybourhood - gay friendly neighbourhood. Duckface - the traditional pouting facial expression in selfies. Felfie - a farmer selfie. Nomakeupselfie - a selfie of a woman without make-up, posted online to raise awareness for a charity. Vaguebooking - posting deliberately vague status updates on social media to prompt a respon...