Some 5,000 words including selfie, tablet and fake news are being added to the German dictionary’s new edition, its head of editorial told dpa on Monday.
“It’s simply a fact that many things from the Anglo-Saxon world appear in our lives when you consider technological developments,’’ Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, head of editorial for the Duden dictionary, said.
Duden is the German equivalent to the Oxford English Dictionary.
While many of the new words are related to technological developments, a handful is about the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Postfaktisch, German for post-factual, is being entered to refer to a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy.
Duden’s first-ever edition published in 1880 had 27,000 words, while the newest edition, which goes on sale has 145,000.
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