Do you hear that loud buzzing sound in the background? It’s a chorus of vuvuzelas, announcing the fact that the Oxford Dictionary of English has added 2,000 new words to its official roster of English vocabulary in current use with its publication of the ODE Third Edition. After all the “buzz” about the vuvuzela (a large plastic trumpet-shaped horn) at this year’s World Cup, it’s not surprising that this word tops our list of new words from the ODE.

The stereotypical male has a hard time expressing his emotions, but with the ODE’s approval of the word bromance, he might find this a bit easier. It defines bromance as a close (but not sexual) relationship between two men. A “brotherly romance” like this is depicted in the Hollywood movies “I Love You, Man” and “Superbad.”

You might want to add a turducken to your holiday menu this year. A turducken is a rather complicated dish that consists of a whole deboned chicken that has been wrapped in a whole deboned duck, which in turn has been stuffed into the body cavity of a whole deboned turkey. Often a bread-based stuffing is added inside the chicken and between the layers of each bird. Once this pile of poultry has been assembled, it’s roasted in the oven and carved (to great fanfare, no doubt) at table.

If you need a recipe, you can use your netbook to look one up on the internet. A netbook is a small computer that’s much lighter than the average laptop because it has a stripped-down system that’s designed primarily to only use web-based applications.

Most recipe sites are free, but you might have to subscribe to some of them, like the gourmet-geared site “Cook’s Illustrated.” Those recipes are protected by a paywall – a web page that you can’t get past until you pay the subscription price.

Sit back, chillax, and enjoy these new additions to your vocabulary!

Note: The “Oxford Dictionary of English” (ODE) is a one-volume listing of words that are in current use in English, and was first published in 1998; the third volume was published in August 2010. The official Oxford English Dictionary (OED), begun in 1888, was first published in multi-volume format in 1928 and is a comprehensive listing of the English language; the current publication (second edition) is 20 volumes. As of August 2010, the editors have reached the letter “R” in their review of the eventual third edition.