Oxford Dictionary adds new words ‘ROFL’ and ‘Scooby Snacks’

The latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) includes a few words you’d never think the dictionary would want to define and a few that it seems should’ve been defined long ago.

For instance, the Internet-speak additions include ROFL (‘rolling on the floor laughing’) and tl;dr (‘too long; didn’t read’). According to the OED editors, the latter term was first used in 2002 ‘when it formed the entirety of a crushing response to another Usenet user’s thoughts on the computer game Metroid Prime’.

There’s also ‘listicle,’ defined as a ‘(usually depreciative) term applied to an article in a newspaper, magazine, or especially on a website, presented wholly or partly in the form of a list, and first recorded in 2007 (And we don’t know anything about it).

Another surprising addition: They’ve decided to add ‘Scooby Snack’.