[Misc] "Sumfin", "whatevs" and "simples" added to Oxford English Dictionary

Mellotron said:

Agreed.

Sumfin is literally just a word being misspelled. It doesn't mean anything different, does it?

If not, we then need to add all misspellings ever. Daft.

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Peteinblack said:

Perhaps the OED should add a new definition for 'like' - "stupid verbal punctuation, inserted about 6 times in every sentence, by ditzy teenage girls and young women, in a misguided attempt to sound 'cool' or 'sexy'. Often combined with 'vocal fry'. See also: bimbo, airhead, Kardashian-follower, totesamazeballs, OMG, You-OK-Hun?-PM-me".

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Mo Gosfield said:

Its difficult to find any bastions of ' Oxford English ' anymore. There are small pockets here and there, probably best spoken by those north of Edinburgh or by educated ' sub-continentals. The public school English has got lazy but is still infinitely acceptable to the unintelligible garbage that has morphed from bastardized cockney, that young men started speaking around the Home Counties, in the 60's and 70's, to this fashionable shite, now doing the rounds. It involves large elements of black culture mixed in with the immature and mentally challenged, who don't know any better and think it gives them some sort of street cred.
We need the language police out on the streets, to start getting everyone to laugh at anyone using words like this. Just endless hysterical laughter at them. Doubled over, side-splitting roars of laughter. We cannot let the simpletons hijack our language anymore. It should be left to the rest of us to speak our beautiful tongue in the way it was intended.
Are these words going to be taught in schools? If not, they should be drummed out of our language

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Perfidious Albion said:

Dumbing down the English language...... what are we coming to. .?

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Wozza said:

Well done everybody.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50052420

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Mo Gosfield said:

Its difficult to find any bastions of ' Oxford English ' anymore. There are small pockets here and there, probably best spoken by those north of Edinburgh or by educated ' sub-continentals. The public school English has got lazy but is still infinitely acceptable to the unintelligible garbage that has morphed from bastardized cockney, that young men started speaking around the Home Counties, in the 60's and 70's, to this fashionable shite, now doing the rounds. It involves large elements of black culture mixed in with the immature and mentally challenged, who don't know any better and think it gives them some sort of street cred.
We need the language police out on the streets, to start getting everyone to laugh at anyone using words like this. Just endless hysterical laughter at them. Doubled over, side-splitting roars of laughter. We cannot let the simpletons hijack our language anymore. It should be left to the rest of us to speak our beautiful tongue in the way it was intended.
Are these words going to be taught in schools? If not, they should be drummed out of our language

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dazzer6666 said:

You need to work on your punctuation, it’s all over the place [emoji23][emoji23]

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Bakero said:

Not to mention the questionable word choice and use of 'that' rather than 'which' in a non-defining relative clause. It's a bloody outrage.

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Triggaaar said:

Sumfin: Is it April ****ing fools day? What the actual ****? That's just a mispronunciation by ****ing morons.

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Sirnormangall said:

Of course it’s a mispronunciation. Everyone knows it ends with a “k”

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GT49er said:

There are probably still rules about this in old use of English text books, but through common usage are no longer relevant. There are certainly circumstances in which they are not interchangeable, but many more in which they are.
It's one of those rules now generally considered archaic, such as the one which says don't split infinitives. Everybody does now, and it actually looks and sounds right.

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Triggaaar said:

Simples: Shit word, but if people use it, fair enough.

Whatevs: Really? It's just an abbreviation, why does it need to be in the dictionary?

Chillax: I think that should be in the dictionary, makes sense.

Sumfin: Is it April ****ing fools day? What the actual ****? That's just a mispronunciation by ****ing morons.

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father_and_son said:

Reasonable view... Except whatevs would be a contraction rather than an abbreviation wouldn't it?

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Bakero said:

I beg to differ, presuming you're referring to the relative clause thing. Using that in a non-defining clause is weird and doesn't sound right at all.

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GT49er said:

Example?

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