{"id":13900,"date":"2016-09-19T14:11:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/on-the-merits-of-fuhgeddaboudit-and-yolo-now-words-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T18:11:04","slug":"on-the-merits-of-fuhgeddaboudit-and-yolo-now-words-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/on-the-merits-of-fuhgeddaboudit-and-yolo-now-words-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"On the merits of \u2018Fuhgeddaboudit\u2019 and YOLO, now words in the Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go home dictionary, you&#8217;re drunk. via IG user @bitspilanidubai Millennials, we did it. We wrung the English language of all its\u00a0luddism until it was so\u00a0[exhausted face emoji] that it finally gave in. This week, the Oxford English Dictionary added\u00a0a few hundred formal and slang words\u00a0to its pages, and YOLO is one of them. In addition to this millennial victory,\u00a0there was also a coup for Old Brooklyn: the regional Brooklynism &#8220;Fuhgeddaboudit,&#8221; which adorns\u00a0one of the many Brooklyn signs\u00a0that\u00a0greet cars leaving the borough, is now in the dictionary. But\u00a0what does the legitimacy of\u00a0YOLO and fuhgeddaboudit mean for all of us? Should we start using this New Yorkism with the same wild abandonment as the millennial acronym? And will Old Brooklyn vernacular fade in its cultural prominence if other cities and cultures begin to adopt the word as commonplace?\u00a0 Eh, probably not. Here&#8217;s the OED&#8217;s definition of Fuhgeddaboudit,\u00a0int.:\u00a0  \u00a0In representations of regional speech (associated especially with New York and&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>On the merits of \u2018Fuhgeddaboudit\u2019 and YOLO, now words in the Oxford English Dictionary : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/dictionary-more-like-fictionary\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go home dictionary, you&#8217;re drunk. via IG user @bitspilanidubai Millennials, we did it. 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