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Some of the new entries in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, second edition:

Canadianisms:
— Alberta clipper
— double-double
— May Two-Four

Sports:
— puck hog
— beer league
— sno-pitch

Sex:
— studmuffin
— sexcapade
— cougar

Technology:
— hacktivist
— netizen
— blog

Health:
— SARS
— West Nile Virus
— erectile dysfunction

Slang:
— geek chic
— jiggy
— SOL

Family:
— co-parent
— commuter marriage
— nanny cam

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally, jiggy is legit!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

did "studmuffin" really NEED to be in the dictionary?

― Nick Apollo Forte (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

In the Canadian dictionary, yes.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I can now sleep at night knowing that "May Two Four" finally has linguistic credentials.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Anybody know or care what an Alberta Clipper is? I mean, it's something to do with Alberta, so who cares (sorry, Anthony).

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's a weather pattern. LAME!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a double-double? I assume this is different from the existing basketball term.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a TimHortonism for a coffee with two creams, two sugars.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Is "TimHortonism" in the Canadian dictionary?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not on the list.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

TIM HORTON'S LOOKS LIKE DUNKIN DONUTS INSIDE

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

However, this excerpt from the Canadian Press article the list is from gives me an idea:
Although some may seem so common that they barely merit a special mention, editor Katherine Barber said it is precisely those types of words that need to be recorded.
“Once these words become part of general vocabulary, you can’t remember not having them,” she said.
This update to the tome first released in 1998 adds only words and phrases the editors feel have become firmly entrenched in the language.
“We have a rule of thumb for the new dictionary entries — we have to have 15 examples from 15 different sources before we put it in the dictionary,” Barber said, adding it takes about 10 years of use for a word to make the move from fringe expression to dictionary-worthy.

With all the wordslingers on ILX, we could easily provide 15 different sources by the next edition. Which words shall we concentrate on?

xpost, you hurt me in my heart. (actually, I prefer Robin's Donuts anyway)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Did my mugshot really NEED to appear next to the "studmuffin" entry?

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You realize that in Canada, studmuffin means ass-pimple, don't you?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Did my mugshot really NEED to appear next to the "studmuffin" entry?

Yeah, but it could at least have been of your face.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

no d'oh?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe no one's commented on sno-pitch yet.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

U DA MAN

― JAKC (ja=Ack_0FF), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

JuWanna Man!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

In Canada, they have 36 different words for d'oh!

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

In Canada, no one can hear you scream.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

...because the population density is 3.3 people per square kilometer.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

But fortunately it's all captured on nanny cam.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Because the nannies are all busy trying to have sexcapades with hacktivists suffering from erectile dysfunction, so they are SOL in the jiggy deptartment, the dirty cougars.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps a little geek chic might help.

What the fuck is a cougar, BTW?

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Cougar is an older woman who likes younger men.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it originated in Calgary.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

okay now you've lost me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.enotalone.com/books/1552976351.html

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

no, you lost me with the nanny business.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Your cougar def'n can be found here. Though is it 'May two-four' or 'May two four'?

double-double is also known as regular in the Maritimes whereas in Upper Canada a regular is cream and sugar.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never ordered a double-double.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you are in the paper business, you drink it black don't you?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I was in the toilet paper business.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That's being cornered by Hamilton.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No love for the Spectator?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Not after their political columnist got caught trying to turn a teenage girl into his dominatrix. And all the space wasted on the Ticats.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

My best ever day in my old library job was when somebody called me a studmuffin, for giving them the book they wanted in under a second.

(we were standing right next to the shelf it was on when they asked, and I recognised the title)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Former NDPer too.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sick of the new words already. Can we have some more?

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

sno-pitch still has some left in it.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still surprised that nobody's asked about that one.

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pleased that 'cougar' is now all official and stuff, but I wonder: Will they include it as a secondary definition in the original entry for the word, or will they have it in some sort of separate section, or both?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it will replace the original word. I think what we used to call a cougar is now solely known as a mountain lion, even the ones in Saskatchewan.

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

But what about the car? The Mercury people will be very upset.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

They still have that song, at least.

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom actually had a 1975 Cougar. I can barely fathom this because she is a very nervous driver and her next car (which she still drives today!) was a little 1982 Accord that is, according to her, 'big and peppy' ??? I mean, that Cougar had a V8 and was BIGGER than the 1981 LTD station wagon my dad had for Chrissakes! Check it:
http://www.coolcats.net/intro/history/75Cougar.jpg

How she drove that I have no idea. I loved that car! Too bad she sold it to my cousin who got rid of it shortly thereafter. Boo.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

"Asbo" and "Chav" make dictionary

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11020038

Other terms included in the latest edition of the dictionary include staycation - a holiday spent in one's home country - and national treasure - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage.

Is this really the meaning of "staycation" in the UK? Because "a holiday spent in one's home country" describes probably 90% of Americans' vacations.

― jaymc, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

From a Facebook post: "clickbaitiest." I'm getting ILX's red squiggly line, so I'm assuming it's new.

― clemenza, Monday, 5 May 2014 22:14 (eleven years ago)

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