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Fox News: OMG! 'Muffin Top' Made It Into the Oxford English Dictionary

Mar 25th 2011 – 12:17PM
Caleb Jones, AP

Caleb Jones, AP

OXFORD, England -- Here's some news that might just make you LOL. The Oxford English Dictionary Thursday added popular buzz words OMG and LOL to its revised online edition.

The Dugout: Clemens on Trial

By B. Thompson StroudJan 4th 2008 – 12:50AM

I don't understand the Fanhouse feedback, sometimes. Some unsatisfied customers of our high-price service have called us a "humor blog," suggesting that they "don't get it" and that they could better obtain a type of currency called "lulz" elsewhere. This could not be further from the truth. We are not a humor blog. These...

Background on lol

LOL, an abbreviation for laughing out loud, or laugh out loud, is a common element of Internet slang. It was used historically on Usenet but is now widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication.

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