The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is generally regarded as the Rolls Royce of English dictionaries. It contains a dizzying 300,000 entries and, because of its history and Oxford-brand snob appeal, gets respect from both academics and the man on the street. So when the OED recently announced that the latest quarterly update to its online dictionary included numerous “initialisms” – abbreviations like OMG (oh my God) and LOL (laugh out loud), a lot of people all over the world went a little nuts. What really riled critics was the fact that the 900 neologisms included , a symbol pronounced “heart” and meaning “love.”