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D’oh: New words for your dictionary


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What words would you add?

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9 Responses

  1. Marc says:

    So is this like the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where anyone can get in if it’s paid for? I fear for our future.

  2. Mark McGuire says:

    There is usually criteria, usually involving the word being published in various places and becoming commonplace in the vernacular, before its inclusion.

    At one point I had a word under consideration for inclusion: santagnostic (adj.), describing a kid, usually around the age of 9, who still wants to believe in Santa Claus but knows he probably doesn’t exist. (Used it in a column once.) Don’t know if that one will ever make it.

  3. BL says:

    I feel like sometimes we just don’t want to fight against our own ignorance. Like with so many other things, the easier path is not to make people speak or right properly, but rather to make their attempts at words become actual words. It’s sort of like just lowering the passing grade to increase the percentage of passing students. I think that it’s only a matter of time before “text speak” becomes an actual language.

  4. Mark McGuire says:

    @BL: English has always evolved. PS: Don’t bang your head too much on the right/write stuff. Been there in the heat of blog writing. I and everyone else know you know the difference.

  5. Adam says:

    Why can’t all the pictures just be of Kate Upton? Regardless of what the word is.

  6. Mark McGuire says:

    @Adam: If only we lived in a Uptonian world.

  7. BL says:

    omg (okay, it’s a word)…”right” properly”. That is ironic. Apologies.

  8. EriK says:

    interesting Mark. I kind of like santagnostic, certainly more than chillax or grrrl.

    I think it might be useful to ad fauxcahontas (n) a female politician that erroneously claims Native American heritage (see Elizabeth Warren).

  9. Mark McGuire says:

    @BL: There is only one spelling error we don’t tolerate here, and that is spelling the steroid abuser’s name like mine.