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> Usually dictionaries wait many years for words to be established before including them (it's a physical dictionary after all). Adding delulu reels of capitalising the zeitgeist for PR

Delulu is more than a decade old.

> it's a physical dictionary after all

Is the Cambridge Dictionary still physical-first? I know the OED has been digital-first since at least around the turn of the millenium (the last full physical edition was in 1989.)

The OED has been what since when?

How was their website so utterly unusable for so many years then? That's the entire reason I use the Cambridge now

I've definitely heard "delulu" years ago, probably floating around Twitter. There's a Wikipedia article on the word for some reason, and it supports this.

> The Oxford English Dictionary is often considered the more authoritative source on the English language, whereas the Cambridge Dictionary focuses more on modern usage.

Yeah - this makes me very curious about the longevity of previous 'words of the year'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year

Dictionaries are no longer a reliable source of information just click bait bs