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24 Words The Dictionary Wants To Ditch

time.com — Apparently the dictionary needs to make room for 2,000 new words. They must be trying to embrangle us with that many new words I think. Or, maybe it will just make us all more nitid?

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  • LemonDeception, on 10/06/2008, -1/+267Is my math wrong, or will deleting 24 words not make room for 2000 new ones?
  • OfNumbers, on 10/05/2008, -23/+282Bling bling of mah niggaz fo effa effa spittin mad heavy 23 skiddoo skivvies be skeet skeet up in mah gheddo of bloods cryps an skinz be slingin the shims and ghetto cheese Marin County yo.
  • jbmcb, on 10/06/2008, -1/+233Hang on, I speak jive -

    "Behold the expensive jewelry and accessories that adorn my compatriots and I! My verse and rhyme are of the highest caliber. My unmentionables and I often enjoin in relations with many women. The two predominant gentleman's organizations, as well as those who do not belong to said clubs, are purveyors of contraband material to assorted and sundry characters of ambiguous gender, and the disadvantaged, in the fine country of Marin, California."
  • AGONYTUESDAY, on 10/06/2008, -1/+176why get rid of agrestic? Weeds is bringing it back.
  • Flappy3, on 10/06/2008, -1/+160I don't know why. They're perfectly cromulent words.
  • L0C0loco, on 10/06/2008, -0/+126Oh, didn't you know? The dictionary was 1976 words away from being completely full.
  • ileftfark, on 10/06/2008, -0/+123They're English Majors.
  • Slade605, on 10/06/2008, -4/+114That's what she said.
  • kellfinder, on 10/05/2008, -2/+99Funny, spell check does not even recognize these words!
  • BeShirtHappy, on 10/05/2008, -9/+95I am muliebrity who regularly embrangles men (well at least my husband).:) BTW, to exuviate some light on the caliginosity of what is Digg, I am abstergent myself of something very olid here and taking a break.

    Okay I didn't use all 24 words... I could have but just didn't have the time to do it. :)
  • Cyclozion, on 10/06/2008, -0/+69Digga' Please!
  • suprxtragrav, on 12/09/2008, -1/+66I think he just said: "Where is the washroom?"
  • protodon, on 10/06/2008, -0/+62Yes they are and it wouldn't hurt anyone to embiggen their vocabularies, just a little.
  • kellfinder, on 10/05/2008, -2/+63That was a mouthful!
  • allisonaxe, on 10/06/2008, -1/+53is it wrong that I knew what a periapt was because i looked up the word after finding the "periapt of vitality" in warcraft 3? (who says you don't learn anything from games?)
  • ks136, on 10/05/2008, -1/+50Spell check misses a lot of words, I've noticed. It's not as comprehensive as Oxford's or Merriam-Webster's full editions. (Which is why we need to proofread more closely, I suppose!)
  • NJank, on 10/06/2008, -0/+48they're really big words.
  • Meccabilly, on 10/06/2008, -1/+48I recrement to do else but vilipend these olid, fubsy, niddering fools and their efforts in exuviating these words from our dictionary. This abstergent activity is not roborant and will only lead to the caducity of the tome, turning what should be a nitid beacon of intellectual resource into a work of ever greater griseous, caliginosity. All people both agrestic and metropolitan, men and those who are suffering from muliebrity deserve not to be embrangled by this malison of dumbing down. Our language will wither and die if we continue this and I presume myself to be fatidical in this vaticinate. But I will instead treat with humble mansuetude the authors of these dictionaries and hope that they can bring themselves to save these words as they are compossible with the new and loved by all. This is apodeictic by our regular use of them in everyday conversation such as this and i do not see it as oppugnant to say so, not the fact that i wear and inscribed periapt to that effect. I also like to make skirring noises while i sing songs with these words in.
  • tbredofsin, on 10/06/2008, -0/+47I just know these are getting kicked out in favor of dead internet memes.
  • agentem, on 10/06/2008, -1/+44They will have never existed.

    We only need the plusgood words in Newspeak.
  • bossgalaga, on 10/06/2008, -0/+42That was incredible.
  • redriot, on 10/06/2008, -0/+40Muliebrity: The condition of being a woman - makes it sound like a disease. :)lol I say we keep niddering.
  • techfish, on 10/06/2008, -0/+37LemonDeception, could you please show your work? I am getting a different answer.
  • ShoesChrist, on 10/06/2008, -0/+34these are perfectly cromulent words
  • Donniehoward08, on 10/06/2008, -0/+31so what happens when they remove them? are we supposed to magically forget about them....
  • AmyVernon, on 10/05/2008, -0/+29That doesn't count; you didn't use a single one of the words.
  • WiretapStudios, on 10/06/2008, -0/+26If by bringing it back, you mean burning the whole thing down a season ago, then yes.
  • CoolHandLuke80, on 10/06/2008, -0/+25Who cares about the ones they are throwing out. Lets see this magical list of 2000 new ones
  • amauldin71, on 10/06/2008, -0/+23Honorificabilitudinitatibus,

    Good enough for Shakespeare. Good enough for me.
  • barryiggins, on 10/06/2008, -0/+23 looks like we got ourselves a reader
  • inactive, on 10/06/2008, -0/+22In philosophy and logic, 'compossible' is a frequently used word...if you need to make room in a dictionary, may I suggest adding pages?
  • Asianwaste, on 10/06/2008, -1/+23Malisons! My agrestic upbringing leaves me embrangled.
  • LeggoMyEgo, on 10/06/2008, -2/+24oh tobias, you blowhard!
  • loquax, on 10/06/2008, -1/+23What the hell is wrong with them? Odd, old words are the lambent sparkles on the surface of our language.
  • jjohnstn, on 10/06/2008, -0/+22Word.
  • neio, on 10/06/2008, -1/+22Fubsy is a great word. Say it aint so joe.
  • jerrycan, on 10/06/2008, -0/+20You son of a bitch. My wife suffers from Muliebrity.
  • dagr8tim, on 10/06/2008, -4/+23How does removing 24 words make room for 2,000?
  • numb, on 10/06/2008, -0/+19Agrestic has been removed from Weeds, so I guess we can remove it from the dictionary now.
  • aerobroken, on 10/05/2008, -8/+26Never even used hardly any of these, mybad...
  • jeevesatvic, on 10/06/2008, -0/+18I'm not sure you used muliebrity correctly. Perhaps you were suffering from a bad case of muliebrity at the time?
  • Roland1232, on 10/06/2008, -0/+17It's all part of Big Dictionary's plan to market Dictionary Classic.
  • ImReallyHungry, on 10/06/2008, -0/+17Oh no! Not my +4 Periapt of Wisdom!
  • NoamChimpsky, on 10/06/2008, -0/+14Actually, periapt goes way back to D&D. Ex: "The Periapt of Health"
  • feathermaye, on 10/06/2008, -1/+15at least none of these were in my current word-rotation.
  • NJank, on 10/06/2008, -0/+14i'll get the baseball bats
  • saralovemuffins, on 10/06/2008, -1/+15"My unmentionables..." LOL
  • Slade605, on 10/06/2008, -0/+14When I first started playing World of Warcraft there was a quest called 'Encroachment' that was on my spelling test the next week.
  • Samsong, on 10/06/2008, -0/+13Orange soda yay!
  • ATLiens, on 10/06/2008, -0/+13***** them, i use mansuetude everyday.
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