“Wiki” Now in a Dictionary Near You
March 15th, 2007 by James
Wiki is one of 287 new words to appear in the online Oxford English Dictionary:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070315/wr_nm/britain_dictionary_wiki_dc_2
Says Graeme Diamond, Principal Editor, New Words, OED:
This joins a small but distinguished group of words which are directly or ultimately borrowings into English from Hawaiian. It has been suggested that in some ways the OED itself resembles a wiki: its long tradition of working on collaborative principles means it has welcomed the contribution of information and quotation evidence from the public for over 150 years.
