Word of the Year 2006
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Stumbled across the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year site. Voting is about to close for 2006.
The site also lists the Top 10 from the past few years/
Vote for the 2006 Word of the Year.
(Moderator's Note: we liked this suggestion by Jon Knox so much, we've moved it over to the main board to make sure no-one missed it.
Whatever might qualify for word of the year here in New Zealand will only get swamped over there. Let's vote for it here.)
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Transferred post by Jeremy Andrew
suppression
injunction
exclusive
Does anyone else know people who belong to the brethren? Not the exclusive ones, just the standard, run-of-the-mill brethren? Have you noticed the poor folks have pretty much had to change the name of their sect to "The Brethren-not-the-exclusive-kind-the-other-ones-that-don't-try-to-pervert-the-course-of-democracy". -
A few thoughts:
stadium
lafo
spider
unbundling
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How about the obvious?
brash
key
starkishwaterfront
mallard
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Truthiness
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Amen, tomorrowpeople.
Truthiness is a good one, but NZ Specific? Some nominations:
Hollow
Cancerous
Coddingtonswallop...and although this makes me super square, all time favourite word (at the moment):
Soniferous
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Cancerous?
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pwned
And no one knows how to pronounce it. -
Best not to hi-jack this thread with a rant about PR companies or diss the hand that feeds/gets paid to push the 'product' - LOL
{:P
er, so do the likes of 'Tomkat' etc count as words?
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Ooh... sorry, typo... I meant starfish
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Six words?
"to the best of my knowledge"
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pwned
And no one knows how to pronounce it.Po-n'd. As in "My Little Pwnies" (my favourire World of Warcraft gild name.)
Or "owned", either works.
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As in "My Little Pwnies"
I've heard it used differently - to rhyme with twinned.
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I've heard it used differently - to rhyme with twinned.
As usual, Wikipedia has more on the topic than anyone will ever need to know.
I'm asking TotalFark too, this mystery must not go unsolved!
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Given its etymology as a typo of owned, then Andre's in the right. However, as always, popular use defines the "correct" use. And the main use of that particular word is written on the interweb, so probably whatever it sounds like in your head is the correct option - until you speak it in public and get ridiculed as a n00b.
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bollocks
re the ARC's decision
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Given its etymology as a typo of owned, then Andre's in the right. However, as always, popular use defines the "correct" use. And the main use of that particular word is written on the interweb, so probably whatever it sounds like in your head is the correct option - until you speak it in public and get ridiculed as a n00b.
So, how does one pronounce 'teh'?
'the' or 'teh'?
;)
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So, how does one pronounce 'teh'?
'the' or 'teh'?
...did I mention I'm still having nightmares about that "Should 'anal retentive' have a hyphen?" thing? :(
I usually say "teh" because I like to inject a little Te Reo into the World Wide Web.
Another word up for consideration:
unbundling.
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"stolen"
On the pwned thing, I think it's an interesting case to illustrate that the written language isn't a mirror of the spoken one but something independent (if strongly connected).It's fun to see words starting as written without any particular reference to how or whether it might be spoken - hence the confusion.
I saw someone recently on (non-Total) Fark complaining about a kid who, on leaving a room, said "BRB" (bee arr bee) by way of indicating his intention to return immediately.
And then there's when you pronounce the word much the same but spell it funny as an in-group thing...
I'm suddenly reminded of something I read in Bill Bryson's Made in America. By the time of the pilgrim fathers (and Shakespeare), all those verbs ending in -eth would have been pronounced -s like we do it now. Bit of almost irrelevant info there, but it shows this kind of thing isn't a new problem.
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Have you noticed the poor folks have pretty much had to change the name of their sect to "The Brethren-not-the-exclusive-kind-the-other-ones-[...]"
FWIW, they've always referred to themselves as the Open Brethren, I assume to distinguish from the EB. I lived in a brethren-managed hostel for a year at university, perfectly normal happy clappy church group.
Personal preference: I always pronounce "pwned" as owned, and "teh" as tay.
As for word of the year, "blogger" in its new context as a political slur. I reckon it could really take off.
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there's a more visual explanation of the term pwned here
all a bit computer geeky reallyto divert the subject again, does anyone else find logging in to this site is a bit hit and miss with firefox?
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**thoroughgoing**
as in,so many of them are such thoroughgoing prats
great word, well used. it just rolls off the tongue!
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"so many of them are such thoroughgoing prats"
great word, well used. it just rolls off the tongue!
It's a beauty, ain't it?
arrant(a): without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
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last week i was introduced to 'gam'.
it is alternately the shapeliness of a woman's leg, or, a bunch of whalers talking at sea.
i've had trouble trying to establish any connection between the two definitions.
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last week i was introduced to 'gam'.
it is alternately the shapeliness of a woman's leg, or, a bunch of whalers talking at sea.
i've had trouble trying to establish any connection between the two definitions.
When you're at sea, you really miss the shapeliness of a woman's leg?
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What I really like about pwn is that
1) The meaning is unclear
2) The pronounciation is unclear
3) It may be nothing more than a typo.
It's the word of the millenium, already. It sort of defines G W Bush, or maybe it doesn't...
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