Are You Suffering from Data Smog?

This press release from AskOxford notes the changes in hyphen usage in our language:

For example, E-MAILS have become EMAILS and we are twice as likely to COOPERATE than CO-OPERATE. We are now ONLINE not ON-LINE.

Note also that among the new words/definitions added to the OED are some that might be of interest to Kairosnews readers:

  • backstory
  • blog
  • bounce and bounce back (as in email, something we've all seen as of late with Sobig.f)
  • CD-R and CD-RW
  • DoS
  • hacktivist
  • Linux
  • PDF
  • postmodern
  • ringtone
  • roaming (as in mobile phones)
  • virtualize
  • warchalking
  • XHTML

Link courtesy of Reflective Reality.