mike (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wordzguy) wrote,@ 2005-05-18 11:57:00 |
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These are a few of our favorite words
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Jeff Atwood sent me a link to this article, which starts off:
The list of Favorite Words Not in the Dictionary is here. Here are the top five (of ten):
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Jeff Atwood sent me a link to this article, which starts off:
The response from the "vocabularians" was so "ginormous" that the lexicographers let out a "whoot."As Jeff noted in his email, the author of the article misspelled "woot," and moreover used it incorrectly -- it's an exclamation, not a noun.
"Confuzzled?" You must be a "lingweenie."
The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries got more than 3,000 entries when, in a lighthearted moment, they asked visitors to their Web site to submit their favorite words that aren't in the dictionary.
The list of Favorite Words Not in the Dictionary is here. Here are the top five (of ten):
1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormousAs for "confuzzled," although the speculation is that it's confused+puzzled, I think we detect here also the influence of that most prolific of neologisticators, Snoop Dogg. :-) For fun, go here to translate Web pages into his, er, idiolect.
2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends
5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway.
