Hello, I'm Alice and this is 6 Minute English. I'm joined today by Rob. Hi Rob. Hello, Alice. Today we're talking about some of the new words which have entered the English language recently. These are words which have been added to the Oxford Dictionary of English this year. There are quite a few, but we thought we'd pick some which you might enjoy using. But first, a question. Rob, can you guess how many new words or phrases were added in this latest edition版?
Is it a hundred, two thousand or ten thousand? Hmm, I would think that there are thousands of new words every year, but not all of them are added to the English dictionary. Let me have a think about it. I'll let you know the answer at the end of the programme. But first, let's hear from Catherine Soames from the Oxford Dictionary of English, talking about how they choose which words will make it into the new edition版. What we can do, we've got software tools that actually实际上 show how words are being used, how widely they're being used.
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