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Title: Oxford English Dictionary's New Entries Include 'Gender Reassignment,' 'Auto-Com
Post by: Shana A on June 17, 2011, 08:29:22 AM
Post by: Shana A on June 17, 2011, 08:29:22 AM
Oxford English Dictionary's New Entries Include 'Gender Reassignment,' 'Auto-Complete'
By: Katy Steinmetz
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/16/oxford-english-dictionarys-new-entries-include-gender-reassignment-auto-complete/ (http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/16/oxford-english-dictionarys-new-entries-include-gender-reassignment-auto-complete/)
June's update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes almost 2,000 new or revised entries. Some terms have gained status through the worlds of technology or gender politics. Others are just good, old-fashioned slang (hello, use it or lose it), that have finally become mainstream enough to make the cut.
Here is a smattering of the OED's newly approved terms:
[...]
Gender reassignment, meaning "the process of a person adopting the physical characteristics of the opposite sex by means of medical procedures such as surgery or hormone treatment," is now included, perhaps given more clout by people like Chaz Bono.
By: Katy Steinmetz
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/16/oxford-english-dictionarys-new-entries-include-gender-reassignment-auto-complete/ (http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/16/oxford-english-dictionarys-new-entries-include-gender-reassignment-auto-complete/)
June's update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes almost 2,000 new or revised entries. Some terms have gained status through the worlds of technology or gender politics. Others are just good, old-fashioned slang (hello, use it or lose it), that have finally become mainstream enough to make the cut.
Here is a smattering of the OED's newly approved terms:
[...]
Gender reassignment, meaning "the process of a person adopting the physical characteristics of the opposite sex by means of medical procedures such as surgery or hormone treatment," is now included, perhaps given more clout by people like Chaz Bono.