I've been known to use IMHO in speech, despite the fact you really shouldn't have Hs there in English. And treat ICly and OOCly as regular words - but then they obviously are, other than the odd speliing with capitals.
The OED is a bit of a funny one, but as a rule of thumb dictionaries give a word 10 years to see if it sticks around before inclusion, apart from a couple of dozen neologisms they put on the back cover to show how up-to-date they are, and all the words that the competition put on their back covers. As a general rule, inclusion of words less than 10 years old is purely for marketing purposes: typically they're just too volatile.
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Date: 2006-06-20 10:48 am (UTC)The OED is a bit of a funny one, but as a rule of thumb dictionaries give a word 10 years to see if it sticks around before inclusion, apart from a couple of dozen neologisms they put on the back cover to show how up-to-date they are, and all the words that the competition put on their back covers. As a general rule, inclusion of words less than 10 years old is purely for marketing purposes: typically they're just too volatile.