Yes , it ’s official : you now can be a fanboy by the great power of Grayskull and the Merriam - Webster Collegiate Dictionary , which says the word is now part of the English language . They arrive a piddling recent , because the Oxford American Dictionary in Apple ’s Mac OS hug drug Leopard running on my Apple iMac 24″ shows it , and so does the dictionary on my Apple PowerBook 17″-running Apple ’s Mac OS X Tiger - and also the reflexive writing system corrector in my Apple iPhone . The Merriam - Webster tally other flake terms which are not in the Oxford , though :
Netroots : the grassroots political militant who pass on via the cyberspace particularly by blogs
Pretexting : the practice of presenting oneself as someone else for receive private selective information
Another Son they impart was malware - software design to interfere with a estimator ’s normal functioning - but that ’s in the Oxford too . [ CNET ]
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