Ian Brookes, editor of the Chambers Dictionary, is seeking to keep words from disappearing in the publisher's next edition which is slated for release in August.
Words on the save list include:
jobernowl - blockhead
logodaedalus - someone skilled in the manipulative use of words
incompossible - incapable of co-existing
supernaculum - to the last drop
zoozoo - a wood pigeon
Typically words are dropped by dictionaries once they fall out of usage, but the Chambers Dictionary wants to be a museum of language.
I say good for them.
My coffee is good supernaculum. Gotta keep that one!
ReplyDeleteComing from a true logodaedalus.
ReplyDeleteWhen will they add hitonious?
ReplyDeleteI'm sniggering over this one...
ReplyDeleteCube: Good ones. Perhaps you should add some of Chambers' funny definitions, like committee: a group of people who take minutes and waste hours.
ReplyDelete-- david
d.a.: yes, it's very pithy and full of clever puns. I wish I had a copy for reference.
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