www.alphadictionary.com

Have you seen the new entries to the Online Oxford English Dictionary? They are only online and not in the OED per se. I enter them here because to me they are slang and largely geek slang from electronics. Most are not in most Agora denizens vocabulary, but I bet some will creep in. As I mentioned elsewhere, I.ve started to use "dongle."

http://qz.com/119200/oxford-dictionary- ... f=dbeurope

On theatlantic.com there is an article about old new words, and what became of some of them.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... ow/279145/

Nice catch. But I could argue with several of them, since app to me is not synonymous with applet. App refers to the program, whereas applet refers to the icon to call up the program. The latter comes from Apple, while app is short for application. Or so I have used it.

As far as I can tell, Apple has nothing to do with applet. Applet is short for, and a diminutive of, application, and app is short for applet.

My friend's name was Al but they called him Aloysius for short.

Here's a piece on how words get into and out of the dictionary. Not in-depth, but worth reading:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... ad/309426/