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SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (AP) -- Gearheads and hotties now have an
official place in the English language, and the wordsmiths at Merriam-
Webster don't mind if they shake their booties or give each other
noogies.
Those slang terms -- for the technology obsessed, physically
attractive, buttocks and annoying knuckle rubs on the head -- have
been added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition.
"These are words that have been in use for a long time," said Merriam-
Webster spokesman Arthur Bicknell. "To get into the dictionary, a new
word must first appear in a number of reputable sources. Then we need
evidence that its been assimilated into our language."
That means new definitions of old terms now linked to the September
11 terrorist attacks -- most notably "ground zero" -- didn't make the
cut this year.
"It's too soon to tell what will stick from September 11," Bicknell
said.
The 215,000-word Collegiate gets about 100 new entries each year.
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― mike hanle y, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I would like to know why the dictionary writers (please don't humor
them by calling them "lexicographers") don't publizice the idioms and
coinages they removed from previous editions in a press release, the
same way they let everyone know about the new shit they're coming up
with. The dictionary people shouldn't be as self-promotingly annoying
as, say, noted television idiot Faith Popcorn.
― Benjamin, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Dicky Knee, rather than Nicky D is mildly humourous though...
― carsmilesteve, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
ACTUALYL I HADNT EVEN THOUGHT OF THE SPOONERIST POSSIBILITEIS OF NICK
DASTOOR'S NAME . I JUST LIKE TO TEASE HUIM FOR NO REASON
― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)