Words not in the dictionary

By at 8:21 am Wednesday, May 18

Merriam-Webster asked online users to submit words that aren't in the dictionary but perhaps should be. The editors then came up with a Top 10 list of frequently submitted words. From the Associated Press:
First place went to "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 -- placed 10th.
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UPDATE: Grant Barrett, editor of the excellent Double-Tongued Word Wrester site and a lexicographer for Oxford University Press, writes:
As everyone who as Mac OS X 10.4 can find out, "ginormous" is indeed in the dictionary, or rather, in "a" dictionary, the second edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary that is included with the new operating system. If my good colleagues at Merriam-Webster want headwords they need to add to the 12th edition of their college dictionary (the current 11th edition is already a fine book), I can send them a list. ; )

David Pescovitz

Collector of anomalies, esoterica, and curiosities.

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