« Glow-In-The-Dark Jacket - perhaps not... | Home | Homeland security : ships and planes »

December 20, 2004

Word Freaks 'Heaven on Earth'

Wordup

It's right here.

Collins Publishing Company of the U.K., a creator of dictionaries and such, has just put up a website featuring new words that may or may not someday make it into their dictionary.

The feature's called "The Living Dictionary."

New entries this week: langer; galactico; bouncebackability

Cameo_livewordup

Jeremy Butterfield, the editor in chief of Collins English Dictionaries, said in Friday's New York Times, "This will completely transform the dictionary scene. It will give language enthusiasts unrivaled access to the words people really use every day and will allow them to keep up to date with new words in a way never possible before."

Typical British understatement, what?

Anyone can submit a word and debate its validity with other site users.

B000001fkh01lzzzzzzz

There's also a nice Scrabble Word Checker, to settle those arguments before the pistols come out.

December 20, 2004 at 01:01 PM | Permalink


TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c5dea53ef00d8350c285e53ef

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Word Freaks 'Heaven on Earth':

Comments

The comments to this entry are closed.