See About archive blog posts. ‘LOL’ was supposed to represent a big step for Miley Cyrus’ movie career as she attempts to mature beyond her saccharine sweet image as Disney’s Hannah Montana.

The guardians of the dictionary have cited the growing occurrence of LOL and OMG in emails, SMSes, social networking and even in verbal communication as a reason for inducing them in the OED.

This is no laughing matter. Gen Z has canceled the fan-favorite acronym LOL. Instead, the slang-savvy generation has coined a more complicated term in lieu of laugh out loud: IJBOL. For the uninit ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has announced the latest batch of words and phrases deemed worthy of etymological conservation. From the encyclopedia's just-released 2011 edition, you'll see cream ...

Even people in powerful positions can become confused, as became clear when David Cameron told the Leveson Inquiry that he believed 'LOL' stood for ... of 'for' or 'OMG' for 'oh my God', developed ...

In the latest update, of the Oxford English Dictionary LOL (definition: laughing out loud), along with omg (definition: oh my goodness/god), Wag, muffin top and non-dom are officially words.

But where did the term originate? And is it really a threat to our lexicon? "OMG! LOL's in the OED. LMAO!" If you find the above string of letters utterly unintelligible, you are clearly an ...

Cast your mind back to those long-ago days of Shake Weights and Slap Chop, "Jersey Shore" and Juicy sweatpants. Even though the 2000s ended just four years ago, it's time to get wistful again with ...

OMG, LOL and FYI are among the latest additions made to the Oxford English Dictionary in a new update. The online edition revealed that it had selected a "number of noteworthy initialisms" for ...