Words you never thought would make the dictionary (7)

7. Tweet!

 

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Tweet Tweet, growing up, you remember that sound from your back garden as dawn breaks… The word tweet was already in the dictionary for that reason, however,  there has been a revision, and times they most certainly are a changing….  The “tweet” revision entry means Twitter may join a small elite of companies named in the Oxford English Dictionary. *** Facebook, Sad face 🙁 **** I just hope Fraping doesn’t make an apperance, although it’s fun when you get your mates….

Officially,

Noun

tweet (plural tweets)

  • The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
  • (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.