“Bada bing”—the catchphrase made famous by hit television show“The Sopranos"—has earned a place alongside 3,000 other new entries in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English.

　　“Reality TV”,“SARS”, someone lacking magic powers from the“Harry Potter”series of novels by author J.K. Rowling, have also been added to the tome, the largest one-volume dictionary of English, the book's publishers said on Thursday.

　　The Oxford dictionary describes“bada bing”(also“bada bing bada boom”) as an exclamation to emphasise that something will happen effortlessly and predictably. The word is also the name of a strip club in the mob drama.

　　Not to be outdone, British television produced“lovely jubbly”, an expression of delight from wisecracking comedy“Only Fools and Horses”.

　　Another trove of new words is the Internet, which added“cyberslacker”,“egosurf”and“hacktivist”to the dictionary, which concentrates on the living language and is separate from the more established and multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary.

　　Though some entries may perplex and infuriate linguistic purists, the dictionary's publishers say words are only included if they are well-known and have proven they can pass the test of time.

　　It said texts including comics, newspapers, TV scripts, novels, scholarly journals and the Web are all scoured as fonts for new words.