TEXTING, social networking and everyday conversations are gradually changing into something completely new.People are starting to use phrases and words such as "bang tidy" and "floordrobe" so much that they have now entered the new Collins 2012 dictionary.
We are making up new words every day.
Even celebrities such as Keith Lemon are influencing our language.
He was the first person I heard say "bang tidy" and in every interview I read about him he says those words at least once.
I always thought that adding new words and definitions to a dictionary was a modern idea.
But it seems that even in a family dictionary I own from the 1940s, there are a list of words and meanings that were newly added then – including "flat" (meaning a place to live) and "doodle", both words we now use in everyday conversation now.
Even though I have never heard of most of the words that have just been entered into the dictionary, I have found myself frequently using them more often.
It just goes to show how much impact words in the modern dictionary have on our speech in our everyday lives.
If words like "fandabidozi" and "oojamaflip" can make it into the dictionary, it just makes you think, what words will soon be in our dictionaries that we have never heard of before?
It seems that it is not impossible to make up a word and to think that one day it just might be written in the dictionary and used by millions of people across the nation.