This is not the first time the OED has caved to an assault on the English language. The walls had already been breached by their embracing IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), TMI (Too Much Information), and BFF (Best Friends Forever).
They also added "Muffin Top" to the dictionary. Gracious! OD will reserve his thoughts on this questionable decision as well as the OED's earlier inclusion of "frenemy" and "bromance".
How far we've come from those Halcyon Days recounted in Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crowthorne.
The madman remains, but the scholarship fades.
OD wonders whether the addition of WTF is not far behind.
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