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ICYMI, pumpkin spice among new Merriam-Webster entries

Maiden Voyage

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ICYMI, pumpkin spice among new Merriam-Webster entries

Finding out that shrinkflation, adorkable, subvariant and even pumpkin spice are now officially in the dictionary might make you exclaim “Yeet!” ICYMI, those are five of the 370 words and phrases that Merriam-Webster added to its dictionary this month, the publisher announced Wednesday.
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Finding out that shrinkflation, adorkable, subvariant and even pumpkin spice are now officially in the dictionary might make you exclaim “Yeet!”

ICYMI, those are five of the 370 words and phrases that Merriam-Webster added to its dictionary this month, the publisher announced Wednesday. Oh yeah, ICYMI, short for “in case you missed it,” was also added.

“Some of these words will amuse or inspire, others may provoke debate. Our job is to capture the language as it is used,” Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, said in a statement. “Words offer a window into our ever-changing language and culture, and are only added to the dictionary when there is clear and sustained evidence of use.”

Worldwide inflation has made shrinkflation a household word. It is defined by the Springfield, Massachusetts publisher as “the practice of reducing a product’s amount or volume per unit while continuing to offer it at the same price.” Think, going to the grocery store and finding that orange juice is no longer available in 64 fluid ounce (1.9 liter) cartons, just 59 ounce.

Pumpkin spice — that polarizing blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and allspice that’s used to flavor, well, just about everything every fall these days — has been around for years but is finally in the dictionary.

Many of the words are slang or used informally on social media. Adorkable, a mashup of dorky and adorable, means “socially awkward or quirky in a way that is endearing.” Yeet is either “used to express surprise, approval, or excited enthusiasm” or as a verb to mean “to throw especially with force and without regard for the thing being thrown,” according to Merriam-Webster’s definition.

The worldwide coronavirus pandemic has pushed terms once heard almost exclusively in medical circles onto everyone’s tongue, including subvariant, booster dose, and emergency use authorization, which are all new dictionary entries.

Many new words are drawn from popular culture, including the verb MacGyver, inspired by the television character who can make or repair just about anything with ordinary items within reach.

If all the new words are overwhelming, try listening to the calming dawn chorus, defined as: “the singing of wild birds that closely precedes and follows sunrise especially in spring and summer.”
 
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Maiden Voyage said:
Pumpkin spice — that polarizing blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and allspice that’s used to flavor, well, just about everything every fall these days — has been around for years but is finally in the dictionary.
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"Been around for years" undersells the late 1700's recipe publication.

Also fuck Pumpkin Spice anything that is not a pumpkin pie.
 
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Happosai

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My grandmother turned 103 in August, in her day she used a number of words as insults which I've never found in many dictionaries. Here they are in case you ever feel like using them:

Hawnyawk - Red neckish yokel who tends to wander by your house uninvited and typically with bad manners

Geedunk - Goofy looking and acting person. Can sometimes be a substitute for elite

Gink- Tall lanky farmer type who speaks in a slow Midwestern slanged English with most words unintelligible

Klugg - An idiot or loser. The extra 'g' in spelling to ad weight to the meaning

Who knows if she made these up or if these are actual words that had different meanings
 
Maiden Voyage

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Happosai said:
My grandmother turned 103 in August, in her day she used a number of words as insults which I've never found in many dictionaries. Here they are in case you ever feel like using them:

Hawnyawk - Red neckish yokel who tends to wander by your house uninvited and typically with bad manners

Geedunk - Goofy looking and acting person. Can sometimes be a substitute for elite

Gink- Tall lanky farmer type who speaks in a slow Midwestern slanged English with most words unintelligible

Klugg - An idiot or loser. The extra 'g' in spelling to ad weight to the meaning

Who knows if she made these up or if these are actual words that had different meanings
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I wonder if they are derived from a different language. We've got some German and Polish words in the general region and I do hear some of it from time to time.
 
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Happosai said:
My grandmother turned 103 in August, in her day she used a number of words as insults which I've never found in many dictionaries. Here they are in case you ever feel like using them:

Hawnyawk - Red neckish yokel who tends to wander by your house uninvited and typically with bad manners

Geedunk - Goofy looking and acting person. Can sometimes be a substitute for elite

Gink- Tall lanky farmer type who speaks in a slow Midwestern slanged English with most words unintelligible

Klugg - An idiot or loser. The extra 'g' in spelling to ad weight to the meaning

Who knows if she made these up or if these are actual words that had different meanings
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Just talking about words (as one does) yesterday with the folks. New additions a little, but also ones that are removed such as 'aerodrome' which has just been dropped apparently (from the Collins dictionary at least) and lost colloquialisms from where I slithered into existence (which is basically Hobbit speak). I imagine these words your grandmother speak are just colloquiallisms fading from use like these:

ACKER (Sax.), acre.
AFFEARD, afraid.
AGEEST, afraid/astonished.
AGO, just gone, nearly dead.
AGGING, egging on, raising quarrels.
AKETHER, quoth he.
ALKITOTLE, a silly elf.
ALL ABROAD, open ("the door is all abroad").
ALLER, a pinswell, whitloe.
ALLERNBATCH, an old sore.
AN, than. ("more an zo" - more than so).
ANEEST, near. ("I wont go aneest en").
APRILL'D, soured, or turning sour.
APURT, sullen, silent, with a gloating.
ANSNEY, to anticipate, look, bad news.
AQUOTT, squatted, weary of eating.
ARG, to argue, dispute.
ART, eight; ARTEEN, eighteen.
ASLAT, cracked (like a pot).
ASNEGER, an ass.
AVROAR, frozen or frosty.
AGOON, soon.
BAK, to beat.
BARRA, a gelt pig.
BARTON, a large demesne.
BATE, to quarrel.
BED ALE, ale brewed for a christening.
BEING/BIN, because.
BELLYHARM, the colic.
BEE LIPPEN, a bee hive.
BETWIT, to upbraid/repeat a matter.
BESCUMMER, to foul with dirty linen.
BIBBLE, to drink often.
BILLID, distracted/mad.
BOTE, part, and past tense of to buy.
BRACK, flaw.
BIVER, to shake/quiver.
BLID, blood.
BLOGGY, to be sullen.
BOOSTERING, to labour busily so as to sweat.
BOWERLY, blooming ("a comely bowerly woman").
BUCKLE, a struggle.
BUDDLED, suffocated.
BULHAGGLE, a scarecrow.
CAAL/CAALING, a call.
CAWBABY, an awkward timid bod.
CHAM, I am.
CHAVE, I have.
CHELL, I shall.
CHETS, kittens.
CHILBLADDER, chilblains.
CHURN, a bad woman.
CHUPS, cheeks/chops.
CLATHERS, clothes.
COB/CLOBB, mud, loam and straw building.
COCKABEL, an icicle.
COCKHEDGE, a (quickset) hedge.
COCKLEERT, when cock crows.
COLE, any kind of cabbage.
COMBE, a hollow between two hills open at one end only.
COMMERCING, as "conversing".
CONDIDDLE, to waste/convey away secretly.
CONDUDLE, conceit.
COPPER FINCH, a chaffinch.
CLOPPING, lame, limping.
CLUME BUZZA, an earthenware pan.
COALVARTY, a bed/to warm a bed with a warming pan.
CORNIWILLIN, a lapwing.
CORROSY, a grudge or ill-will.
CORT, caught.
COTTEN, to beat soundly.
COUCH PAWED/HANDED, awkward/left-handed.
COURTLAGE, the fore or backyard of a house.
COWAL, a fish-woman's basket.
COZING/COOZING, loitering/soaking.
CRAZED, cracked.
CREWDLING, sensible of cold.		CREWNTING, grunting/complaining.
CRICKS, dry hedgewood.
CRICKLE TO, to bend.
CHRISEMORE, an unchristened child.
CROPEING, stingy.
CRUEL, very.
CLEVES, cliffs.
CLEAR AND SHEER, completely/totally.
DAB, an adept.
DAGGLE, to run like a young child.
DAPS, the exact likeness of.
DAVER, to fade like a flower.
DAWCOCK, a silly fellow.
DEEF, rotten/corrupted.
DIMMET, the dusk of the evening.
DINDER, thunder.
DISHWATER, water wagtail.
DIZZEN, a dozen.
DO, to be done ("to be do").
DOAN, wet, damp bread.
DESPERD, very/extremely.
DIDDLECOME, half-mad/sorely vexed.
DIRSH, a thrush.
DUDDER, to deafen with noise.
DOATTIE, to nod the head in sleep while sitting up.
DOLL, to toll (as a bell).
DON/DOFF, to put on/off.
EART, sometimes.
ELLEM TREE, elm tree.
ELONG, slanting.
ELSH, new.
EN, him ("I told en").
ES,ISE,ISH, I.
EUTE, pour out.
ETH, earth.
FADGE, to fare ("how d'ye fadge?")
FITTY, clever.
FLICKETS, flushes in the face.
FORE-RIGHT, honest (person).
FUMP, essence of.
GANMER, mistress/an old woman.
GATFER, an old man.
GRAMMER, grandmother.
GRANFER, grandfather.
GUDDLE, to drink greedily.
GUIT, a joint.
HOOP, a bullfinch.
HULDER, hide or conceal.
HULVE, to turn over.
HELL, to pour.
HEND, to throw.
HATCH, fancy wish.
LIE A BIER, lie dead.
LEW, sheltered/defended from storms.
LIDDEN, a tale/theme/subject.
LONGFUL, long in regard to time.
MANG, to mix.
MEECH, to play truant.
NUMMET/NUNCH, lunch.
ORT, anything.
RAY, to dress.
READSHIP, confidence, trust.
SHORD, a gap in the hedge.
SUENT, even, smooth.
SWANT, proper.
TAFFETY, delicate on the palate.
TANG, to tie.
TILBY, testy.
TINE, to shut/close.
TUT-WORK, piece-work.
TWILY, troublesome, irksome.
TRAPER, a slut.
UPSETTING, Christening.
UNRAY, to undress.
UNKET, dreary, dismal.
VANG, to receive/earn.
VAUGHT, fetched.
WARD, to wade.
WASHDISH, a wagtail.
WANT, a mole.
WHOP, a heavy blow.
WOODQUIST, wood-pigeon.
ZAT, soft.
ZAUNDY, to swoon.
ZIT, sit.
ZO,
 
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Happosai

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Maiden Voyage said:
I wonder if they are derived from a different language. We've got some German and Polish words in the general region and I do hear some of it from time to time.
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Well, she goes back to coincidentally the Dunn and O'Rourke families of Ireland. Although, I figure these came from her Mom. By the way, coincidentally those are the last names of two of the actresses who passed away shortly after the Poltergeist films.
StabbyStabStabStabStab said:
Just talking about words (as one does) yesterday with the folks. New additions a little, but also ones that are removed such as 'aerodrome' which has just been dropped apparently (from the Collins dictionary at least) and lost colloquialisms from where I slithered into existence (which is basically Hobbit speak). I imagine these words your grandmother speak are just colloquiallisms fading from use like these:

ACKER (Sax.), acre.
AFFEARD, afraid.
AGEEST, afraid/astonished.
AGO, just gone, nearly dead.
AGGING, egging on, raising quarrels.
AKETHER, quoth he.
ALKITOTLE, a silly elf.
ALL ABROAD, open ("the door is all abroad").
ALLER, a pinswell, whitloe.
ALLERNBATCH, an old sore.
AN, than. ("more an zo" - more than so).
ANEEST, near. ("I wont go aneest en").
APRILL'D, soured, or turning sour.
APURT, sullen, silent, with a gloating.
ANSNEY, to anticipate, look, bad news.
AQUOTT, squatted, weary of eating.
ARG, to argue, dispute.
ART, eight; ARTEEN, eighteen.
ASLAT, cracked (like a pot).
ASNEGER, an ass.
AVROAR, frozen or frosty.
AGOON, soon.
BAK, to beat.
BARRA, a gelt pig.
BARTON, a large demesne.
BATE, to quarrel.
BED ALE, ale brewed for a christening.
BEING/BIN, because.
BELLYHARM, the colic.
BEE LIPPEN, a bee hive.
BETWIT, to upbraid/repeat a matter.
BESCUMMER, to foul with dirty linen.
BIBBLE, to drink often.
BILLID, distracted/mad.
BOTE, part, and past tense of to buy.
BRACK, flaw.
BIVER, to shake/quiver.
BLID, blood.
BLOGGY, to be sullen.
BOOSTERING, to labour busily so as to sweat.
BOWERLY, blooming ("a comely bowerly woman").
BUCKLE, a struggle.
BUDDLED, suffocated.
BULHAGGLE, a scarecrow.
CAAL/CAALING, a call.
CAWBABY, an awkward timid bod.
CHAM, I am.
CHAVE, I have.
CHELL, I shall.
CHETS, kittens.
CHILBLADDER, chilblains.
CHURN, a bad woman.
CHUPS, cheeks/chops.
CLATHERS, clothes.
COB/CLOBB, mud, loam and straw building.
COCKABEL, an icicle.
COCKHEDGE, a (quickset) hedge.
COCKLEERT, when cock crows.
COLE, any kind of cabbage.
COMBE, a hollow between two hills open at one end only.
COMMERCING, as "conversing".
CONDIDDLE, to waste/convey away secretly.
CONDUDLE, conceit.
COPPER FINCH, a chaffinch.
CLOPPING, lame, limping.
CLUME BUZZA, an earthenware pan.
COALVARTY, a bed/to warm a bed with a warming pan.
CORNIWILLIN, a lapwing.
CORROSY, a grudge or ill-will.
CORT, caught.
COTTEN, to beat soundly.
COUCH PAWED/HANDED, awkward/left-handed.
COURTLAGE, the fore or backyard of a house.
COWAL, a fish-woman's basket.
COZING/COOZING, loitering/soaking.
CRAZED, cracked.
CREWDLING, sensible of cold.		CREWNTING, grunting/complaining.
CRICKS, dry hedgewood.
CRICKLE TO, to bend.
CHRISEMORE, an unchristened child.
CROPEING, stingy.
CRUEL, very.
CLEVES, cliffs.
CLEAR AND SHEER, completely/totally.
DAB, an adept.
DAGGLE, to run like a young child.
DAPS, the exact likeness of.
DAVER, to fade like a flower.
DAWCOCK, a silly fellow.
DEEF, rotten/corrupted.
DIMMET, the dusk of the evening.
DINDER, thunder.
DISHWATER, water wagtail.
DIZZEN, a dozen.
DO, to be done ("to be do").
DOAN, wet, damp bread.
DESPERD, very/extremely.
DIDDLECOME, half-mad/sorely vexed.
DIRSH, a thrush.
DUDDER, to deafen with noise.
DOATTIE, to nod the head in sleep while sitting up.
DOLL, to toll (as a bell).
DON/DOFF, to put on/off.
EART, sometimes.
ELLEM TREE, elm tree.
ELONG, slanting.
ELSH, new.
EN, him ("I told en").
ES,ISE,ISH, I.
EUTE, pour out.
ETH, earth.
FADGE, to fare ("how d'ye fadge?")
FITTY, clever.
FLICKETS, flushes in the face.
FORE-RIGHT, honest (person).
FUMP, essence of.
GANMER, mistress/an old woman.
GATFER, an old man.
GRAMMER, grandmother.
GRANFER, grandfather.
GUDDLE, to drink greedily.
GUIT, a joint.
HOOP, a bullfinch.
HULDER, hide or conceal.
HULVE, to turn over.
HELL, to pour.
HEND, to throw.
HATCH, fancy wish.
LIE A BIER, lie dead.
LEW, sheltered/defended from storms.
LIDDEN, a tale/theme/subject.
LONGFUL, long in regard to time.
MANG, to mix.
MEECH, to play truant.
NUMMET/NUNCH, lunch.
ORT, anything.
RAY, to dress.
READSHIP, confidence, trust.
SHORD, a gap in the hedge.
SUENT, even, smooth.
SWANT, proper.
TAFFETY, delicate on the palate.
TANG, to tie.
TILBY, testy.
TINE, to shut/close.
TUT-WORK, piece-work.
TWILY, troublesome, irksome.
TRAPER, a slut.
UPSETTING, Christening.
UNRAY, to undress.
UNKET, dreary, dismal.
VANG, to receive/earn.
VAUGHT, fetched.
WARD, to wade.
WASHDISH, a wagtail.
WANT, a mole.
WHOP, a heavy blow.
WOODQUIST, wood-pigeon.
ZAT, soft.
ZAUNDY, to swoon.
ZIT, sit.
ZO,
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Very nice. I'd like to see a thread where at least two of these are used in proper context.
 
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StabbyStabStabStabStab

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Happosai said:
Well, she goes back to coincidentally the Dunn and O'Rourke families of Ireland. Although, I figure these came from her Mom. By the way, coincidentally those are the last names of two of the actresses who passed away shortly after the Poltergeist films.

Very nice. I'd like to see a thread where at least two of these are used in proper context.
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Well next time there's a topic about gelt pigs I'll been straight on in there spraying a few of them around willy nilly.

The above colloquiallisms are actually all west country UK which you can hear below - interrestingly there's quite a few ccommentators from the US who found the accent simlar to certain dialects over there, so it wouldn't surprise me if your grandmothers phrases were borne out of immigration from some far off land - be that Ireland or beyond - and remained in use long after they had died out in the country they originated from.

 
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Soodanim

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StabbyStabStabStabStab said:
Just talking about words (as one does) yesterday with the folks. New additions a little, but also ones that are removed such as 'aerodrome' which has just been dropped apparently (from the Collins dictionary at least) and lost colloquialisms from where I slithered into existence (which is basically Hobbit speak). I imagine these words your grandmother speak are just colloquiallisms fading from use like these:

ACKER (Sax.), acre.
AFFEARD, afraid.
AGEEST, afraid/astonished.
AGO, just gone, nearly dead.
AGGING, egging on, raising quarrels.
AKETHER, quoth he.
ALKITOTLE, a silly elf.
ALL ABROAD, open ("the door is all abroad").
ALLER, a pinswell, whitloe.
ALLERNBATCH, an old sore.
AN, than. ("more an zo" - more than so).
ANEEST, near. ("I wont go aneest en").
APRILL'D, soured, or turning sour.
APURT, sullen, silent, with a gloating.
ANSNEY, to anticipate, look, bad news.
AQUOTT, squatted, weary of eating.
ARG, to argue, dispute.
ART, eight; ARTEEN, eighteen.
ASLAT, cracked (like a pot).
ASNEGER, an ass.
AVROAR, frozen or frosty.
AGOON, soon.
BAK, to beat.
BARRA, a gelt pig.
BARTON, a large demesne.
BATE, to quarrel.
BED ALE, ale brewed for a christening.
BEING/BIN, because.
BELLYHARM, the colic.
BEE LIPPEN, a bee hive.
BETWIT, to upbraid/repeat a matter.
BESCUMMER, to foul with dirty linen.
BIBBLE, to drink often.
BILLID, distracted/mad.
BOTE, part, and past tense of to buy.
BRACK, flaw.
BIVER, to shake/quiver.
BLID, blood.
BLOGGY, to be sullen.
BOOSTERING, to labour busily so as to sweat.
BOWERLY, blooming ("a comely bowerly woman").
BUCKLE, a struggle.
BUDDLED, suffocated.
BULHAGGLE, a scarecrow.
CAAL/CAALING, a call.
CAWBABY, an awkward timid bod.
CHAM, I am.
CHAVE, I have.
CHELL, I shall.
CHETS, kittens.
CHILBLADDER, chilblains.
CHURN, a bad woman.
CHUPS, cheeks/chops.
CLATHERS, clothes.
COB/CLOBB, mud, loam and straw building.
COCKABEL, an icicle.
COCKHEDGE, a (quickset) hedge.
COCKLEERT, when cock crows.
COLE, any kind of cabbage.
COMBE, a hollow between two hills open at one end only.
COMMERCING, as "conversing".
CONDIDDLE, to waste/convey away secretly.
CONDUDLE, conceit.
COPPER FINCH, a chaffinch.
CLOPPING, lame, limping.
CLUME BUZZA, an earthenware pan.
COALVARTY, a bed/to warm a bed with a warming pan.
CORNIWILLIN, a lapwing.
CORROSY, a grudge or ill-will.
CORT, caught.
COTTEN, to beat soundly.
COUCH PAWED/HANDED, awkward/left-handed.
COURTLAGE, the fore or backyard of a house.
COWAL, a fish-woman's basket.
COZING/COOZING, loitering/soaking.
CRAZED, cracked.
CREWDLING, sensible of cold.		CREWNTING, grunting/complaining.
CRICKS, dry hedgewood.
CRICKLE TO, to bend.
CHRISEMORE, an unchristened child.
CROPEING, stingy.
CRUEL, very.
CLEVES, cliffs.
CLEAR AND SHEER, completely/totally.
DAB, an adept.
DAGGLE, to run like a young child.
DAPS, the exact likeness of.
DAVER, to fade like a flower.
DAWCOCK, a silly fellow.
DEEF, rotten/corrupted.
DIMMET, the dusk of the evening.
DINDER, thunder.
DISHWATER, water wagtail.
DIZZEN, a dozen.
DO, to be done ("to be do").
DOAN, wet, damp bread.
DESPERD, very/extremely.
DIDDLECOME, half-mad/sorely vexed.
DIRSH, a thrush.
DUDDER, to deafen with noise.
DOATTIE, to nod the head in sleep while sitting up.
DOLL, to toll (as a bell).
DON/DOFF, to put on/off.
EART, sometimes.
ELLEM TREE, elm tree.
ELONG, slanting.
ELSH, new.
EN, him ("I told en").
ES,ISE,ISH, I.
EUTE, pour out.
ETH, earth.
FADGE, to fare ("how d'ye fadge?")
FITTY, clever.
FLICKETS, flushes in the face.
FORE-RIGHT, honest (person).
FUMP, essence of.
GANMER, mistress/an old woman.
GATFER, an old man.
GRAMMER, grandmother.
GRANFER, grandfather.
GUDDLE, to drink greedily.
GUIT, a joint.
HOOP, a bullfinch.
HULDER, hide or conceal.
HULVE, to turn over.
HELL, to pour.
HEND, to throw.
HATCH, fancy wish.
LIE A BIER, lie dead.
LEW, sheltered/defended from storms.
LIDDEN, a tale/theme/subject.
LONGFUL, long in regard to time.
MANG, to mix.
MEECH, to play truant.
NUMMET/NUNCH, lunch.
ORT, anything.
RAY, to dress.
READSHIP, confidence, trust.
SHORD, a gap in the hedge.
SUENT, even, smooth.
SWANT, proper.
TAFFETY, delicate on the palate.
TANG, to tie.
TILBY, testy.
TINE, to shut/close.
TUT-WORK, piece-work.
TWILY, troublesome, irksome.
TRAPER, a slut.
UPSETTING, Christening.
UNRAY, to undress.
UNKET, dreary, dismal.
VANG, to receive/earn.
VAUGHT, fetched.
WARD, to wade.
WASHDISH, a wagtail.
WANT, a mole.
WHOP, a heavy blow.
WOODQUIST, wood-pigeon.
ZAT, soft.
ZAUNDY, to swoon.
ZIT, sit.
ZO,
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Some of these are great. Some are just phonetic spelling of the accent/dialect though, which is funny to see recognised as something different. Cort for caught and ort for aught are easy examples, but even "eth" for earth isn't a new word, just a strong accent. Still love it, regardless.
 
Grildon Tundy

Grildon Tundy

Gold Member
Soodanim said:
Some of these are great. Some are just phonetic spelling of the accent/dialect though, which is funny to see recognised as something different. Cort for caught and ort for aught are easy examples, but even "eth" for earth isn't a new word, just a strong accent. Still love it, regardless.
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Grammer and Grandfer for grandmother and grandfather need to make a come back. They seem to have been replaced by things like "Pah Paw" and "Mee Maw", which are cute when little kids use them, but when my manager at an office job is still going around referring to his "Pah Paw" at 30, it's a little unsettling
 
Dirk Benedict

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When they stopped caring about English, proper, I stopped caring, too. They are essentially worthless, going forward, imo.
 
Sakura

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Member
What's the point of adding slang that people won't be using in 10 years?
And why does pumpkin spice need an entry? It's just two words that are already in there and already self explanatory.
 
Grildon Tundy

Grildon Tundy

Gold Member
Sakura said:
What's the point of adding slang that people won't be using in 10 years?
And why does pumpkin spice need an entry? It's just two words that are already in there and already self explanatory.
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Hm...sounds like you had a hot take on it. One.might say it "engaged" you. One might say that, in aggregate, higher engagement correlates with more clicks which equals more ad dollars. I think that's why they're doing something (intentionally?) contentious
 
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