Monday, May 16, 2005

Wh00t! It's ginormous!

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.

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Some of the proposed words even gained multiple submissions so the editors came up with an admittedly unscientific Top 10 list.

In first place was "ginormous" - bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous - followed by "confuzzled" for confused and puzzled simultaneously, and "whoot," an exclamation of joy. A "lingweenie" - a person incapable of making up new words - was tenth.
I kinda like that "lingweenie" bit, though I've never seen it before. I've seen "ginormous", "confuzzled", and, of course, "whoot"/"wh00t", in use on the web.

Check out the full article at Yahoo!

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