Dictionary adds 'chill pill,' 'bikini wax'

NEW YORK, July 3 (UPI) -- The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary Online said in New York they have added "chill pill," "bikini wax" and other new words to the language database.

The Internet version of the resource added nearly 2,700 new words -- including "problemo" and "argh" -- this week as part of its ritual three-month update, the company said in a statement.

"The revised range of the OED contains 2,693 entries, bringing the total number of main entries to 260,154," said John Simpson, editor-in-chief of the Oxford English Dictionary. "They are illustrated by 2,827,811 quotations and represent 697,324 different meanings."

"The English language changes and evolves all the time and the Oxford English Dictionary has to keep up," said Jesse Sheidlower, the OED's editor at large. "Our editors are currently going through the entire alphabet bit by bit, writing new entries and revising existing ones in order to stay current. It's a massive job and will take years, if not decades, to complete -- at which point we'll start over again."

Other words added to the dictionary include "Brooklynite," "sleeper cell," "glitch," "Islamofascism" and "scratch and sniff."