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'Tweet', 'dad dancing' make it to Oxford Dictionary    London: '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.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...

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