Dumb phone, chumocracy and generative artificial intelligence are among the new words which have entered the Oxford English Dictionary.
They are just some of the 500 revised words and phrases to be recognised - with technology responsible for a lot of the new terms.
'Dumb phone' refers to someone without smart technology, while 'chumocracy' refers to friends or acquaintances of politicians being appointed to positions without regard to their qualifications.
'Generative artificial intelligence' is artificial intelligence "designed to produce output, especially text or images, previously thought to require human intelligence".
A man looking for information using artificial intelligence Google Bard. Image: JYPIX / Alamy'Psych' has also been entered into use - which is "used mockingly or playfully to indicate that one was joking or playing a prank" - alongside 'splain', following the rise of words such as 'mansplaining'.
Other terms to make it on the list include 'power bank' and 'insurtech'.
'Insurtech' refers to insurance technology, especially digital products, designed to make the creation and distribution of insurance products and services more efficient.
Image: PDPics from PixabayA 'talkboard' has also been added to the vernacular, which refers to an online forum or chat room.
A 'copypasta' response has also made its first appearance, which is a disparaging term for "a reply which is considered generic or to have been made with little effort".
The company notes that it didn't take long to make it into the dictionary, with its earliest known use being in the 2010s.
Meanwhile that "sudden involuntary spasmodic or convulsive movement of the body" when a person is beginning to fall asleep also has a term now: 'hypnic jerk'.
"The material added to the dictionary includes revised versions of existing entries (which replace the older versions), and new words and senses both within the alphabetical sequence of revised entries and also across the whole A to Z range," the Oxford English Dictionary said.
The Oxford English Dictionary is updated on a quarterly basis.
