If you can't stand it when new words are created or old ones are used differently, you might

want to stop reading now. The truth is that new words are
constantly creeping into the English language. It seems English speakers can't help coming up with ever-newer and more inventive ways to describe the
things around them. And once these words have been in use for ten years, they can be entered into the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). This is when a
word becomes 'official'.

So which words have entered the dictionary recently? In 2014 we had the verb 'to mansplain'. This describes when a man explains something to a woman in
a condescending and patronising way. As in the sarcastic comment 'I'm really glad he mansplained how to boil water to me. I might not have known
otherwise.'

Following on from this in 2015 was the noun 'manspreading'. The OED defines this as 'the practice whereby a man, especially one travelling on public
transport, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats'. Male travellers, you might want to
arrange your legs in a neat and tidy way from now on.

Other phrases to enter the dictionary include 'fur baby', which is defined as a person's dog, cat, or other furry pet animal. And if you share photos of your fur
baby on social media, you may have interacted with the 'Twitterati' – users of the social media service Twitter.
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She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, yet few people even know her name.
In August 1939, Clare Hollingworth had just begun working for the Daily Telegraph. Reporting on growing tensions in
Europe, she had been sent to Poland. While there, she decided to go on a fact-finding mission to Germany. What she
saw was shocking. Along the German-Polish border were huge numbers of German troops and tanks, facing towards
Poland, ready to invade. Hollingworth telephoned British Embassy staff in Warsaw with the news, but officials were not
sure whether to take her seriously. To convince them, she held her telephone out of the window so they could hear the
sound of the battle beginning. The next day, the Daily Telegraph's front page carried her story, with the headline '1,000
tanks massed on Polish border. Ten divisions reported ready for swift stroke'. It was arguably the news scoop of the 20th
century. Not bad for a young journalist who had only been in the job one week.
Hollingworth has had a rich career and has reported from numerous other war zones including Palestine, Aden and
Vietnam. She moved to Hong Kong in the 1980s, where she still lives. Making the short trip from her home to the Foreign
Correspondent's Club is a daily routine for Hollingworth, who recently celebrated her 104th birthday at the Club.