Indian food essentials – chana and chana dal – are among the many new entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, OED, unveiled today. <br/><br/>Chickpeas (chana) and the split chickpea lentils (chana dal) join the vast list of more than 600 other words and phrases that the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary has deemed popular enough to be included in its quarterly update. <br/><br/>The clutch of words debuting in the world's definitive guide to the evolving English language covers everything from lifestyle and current affairs to the educational world. <br/><br/>The other prominent new entries include a batch of tennis-related words like "forced error" as well as slang such as "bagel" – which refers to a score in a set of six games to love, due to the similarity of the numeral zero to the shape of a bagel.<br/>'<br/>In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries had announced 'post-truth' as its Word of the Year. Since then, the huge increase in usage of the word has given the lexicographers enough evidence to add it to the latest edition of OED.<br/>'<br/>A new sense of woke, which was shortlisted for 'Word of the Year', has also been added, meaning "alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice". <br/><br/>Its use by supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, and in particular the phrase "stay woke", is thought to have introduced the word to a broader audience, especially on social media.<br/>'<br/>Since the introduction of the term 'academy' to the English school system in 2000, this type of independently publicly run school has featured heavily in UK news. The latest 'OED' update also includes a new related sense of the verb academise, to convert a school into such an academy.<br/>'<br/>Other remarkable entries in the latest update are: footless (as in, footless drunk, an alternative to the more familiar 'legless'), swimmer (sperm), and son of a bachelor (a euphemistic alternative to 'son of a bitch').<br/>