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Then you have a fundamental disagreement with the Oxford English
Dictionary, then.

 

Shakespeare and Kipling. Oh, and Lewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky" -
whiffle, burble and frabjous are just three that came from that poem.

 

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:22:43 +0000,

Frabjous? Yeah, like that's a normal part of everyday English these
days...

 

I don't believe that I do.

 

Shakespeare and Kipling. Oh, and Lewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky" -
whiffle, burble and frabjous are just three that came from that poem.[/QUOTE]

<bangs away at point>
Ah, so you have to be a literary figure to invent words, eh? So, yer
average man in the street isn't allowed, but yer actual intellectuals
are? Yes, that fits with Des' elitist view.
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Then you are wrong.

How do you think new words get there?

http://www.oed.com/help/updates/latest-additions.html

 

Frabjous is a perfectly cromulent word.

 

Ms. Hoover to Mrs Krabappel in "Lisa the iconoclast", although obviously the
word they were discussing was "embiggens"

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

I can't believe my name has only just been added.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I see they've finally caught up with gaslight.

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Grimly Curmudgeon says...

I used to know a bloke called 'Gaslamp', so named cos he was so
_fucking_ dim.

 

<bangs away at point>
Ah, so you have to be a literary figure to invent words, eh? So, yer
average man in the street isn't allowed, but yer actual intellectuals are?
Yes, that fits with Des' elitist view.[/QUOTE]

My Concise Oxford (sufficient for mere mortals) has a section at the back
for new words, or words with new meaning. Most of these are clearly the
work of Joe Public.

 

I can especially recommend this advice.

 

DR says...

Amityville

 

[/QUOTE]

What a _stunning_ inability to follow concepts any more complicated than
'Bill and Ben, the flowerpot men' !

'Des' doesn't have an 'élitist view'. 'Des' just doesn't believe that, to
_paraphrase_ Blaney's post of a couple of months back, that one person
understanding the incorrect use of a word, is sufficient for that word to
be accepted as correct.

I daresay that the above will be twisted, amid claims that I in fact wrote
something that I didn't. 'Plus ça change ...'

 

See my answer to Champ.

I'm off to the library, again.

 

Well, I'm not sure I said exactly that - but it doesn't matter because
I don't make the rules about what gets a word into the OED.

So, Des, do you even *know* the rules about what gets a word into the
OED?

 

According to "The Meaning of Everything", the history of the OED, most of
the work is done by volunteers who read books, magazines, newspapers and any
other publications and submit, to the editorial team, examples of words
being used in a specific context.

TMoE gives a very definite impression that there isn't a lower limit to the
number of examples that must be found to allow a word into the dictionary.

HTH

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

It doesn't help, because it's not correct. My brother used to work on
the New Words edition.