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is there anything you ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW?

xcidium said:
How do you go about getting a word to be recognized officially as a real word?
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You can send any contributions you want included in the Oxford English Dictionary (which is about as official as you get) to:
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    Oxford University Press
    Great Clarendon Street
    Oxford, OX2 6DP
    Tel: +44 (0)1865 353660
    Fax: +44 (0)1865 353811
    E-mail: [email protected]

According to their website, they are always keen to receive contributions from anyone. Any word, slang or dialect, politically correct or incorrect, is useful as long as it is used by English speakers or writers of English. Proper names are not generally included unless they can be shown to be used in a generic or extended sense.

Evidence of your submission has to be from published sources. IE: They will not accept records of spoken english.

So basically you just need to provide documentary evidence of people actually using the word (in written form), and they will at least consider including it.

Here is a list of words that Oxford is currently appealing for examples of recent use, as these words are currently being drafted for new versions, or are under revision.

Now out of interest.... what word do you want included? Bearing in mind that having the word published here will quite possibly help your cause. :D
 
Pop Popavich said:
Now out of interest.... what word do you want included? Bearing in mind that having the word published here will quite possibly help your cause. :D
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Well that was my next step. ;)

I didn't have a word in mind (yet), but I was going to suggest BL make a word up and get it submitted.

Imagine that!
Hey grandkids, that's my word!
 
I can't believe " arse about face" isn't already in it.

Kiwifrut knee: noun, the apperance of a neglected female knee.

Roachtail: noun, the ragged packet of a used cigarette papers.
 
Just because you asked so nicely

Glatt Kosher:

Misconception: "Glatt Kosher" means something like "extra kosher" and applies to chicken and fish as well as meat.

Fact: Glatt is Yiddish for smooth, and in the context of kashrut it means that the lungs of the animal were smooth, without any adhesions that could potentially prohibit the animal as a treifa, an issue only applicable to animals, not fowl or non-meat products.

Background: In colloquial discourse treif refers to anything that is not kosher. The technical definition of treifa is based on Exodus 22:30 ("Do not eat meat from an animal torn [treifa] in the field") and refers to an animal with any of a specific group of physical defects that are detailed in the Talmud (most of the third chapter of Chullin; 42a-59a) and codes (Rambam, Maachalot Asurot 4:6-9 and Shechitah ch. 5-11; Shulchan Aruch, YD 29-60). Examples of these "defects," which often go far beyond the health inspection of the USDA, include certain lesions, lacerations, broken limbs, missing or punctured organs, or the result of an attack by a larger animal.

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Has Gecko ever toured here (The tech producer/dj, not the groove armada dude), and if not, can someone bring him out?

edit: aka Jorg Henze
 
You whats funny is that Pops isnt even the one in our group of friends known as the Professor. That title goes to another much brained chum.

What i have always wanted to know is what fire is. Like physically, chemically what it is. I have never gotten a decent answer from anyone.
 
as in what the flames you see are?
light?

all combustion is is a massive release of energy and oxidation of the material you're burning.
its released as electromagnetic energy, although not in a range used to transmit stuff or in the evil xray+ wavelengths (maybe UV, not sure). belod visible spectrum=Infra red=heat. Visible spectrum=light

Different materials combusting produce different coloured flames depending on their temperature, how well they combust and more specifically, how energized the photons released are. Wood tends to have a yellow/red flame? gas more towards blue/violet? copper makes it green?
 
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I've always thought of is a process rather than something that could fall under the usual animal/vegetable/mineral thing. The fact that you can see it is just because light happens to be a by product of the process.

Edit: Just found this...
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Edition, fire is, "A rapid, persistent chemical reaction that releases heat and light, especially the exothermic combination of a combustible substance with oxygen."
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no more as in what the nature of fire is. its almost a solid thing you can touch but not quite.

and burning.... i know what it is (rapid oxidisation etc..) but why does it happen? i have fuel, i have oxygen... i have heat... suddenly poof i have fire. its just something that my mind cant get a proper grip of.

i find that its like naming something for what it does... rather than describing what it does.

"oh that thing is cloong." "why is it called cloong?" "because it cloongs you silly person!"



i understand all the pieces but not the puzzle.
 
it explains it in pops article
when there's more energy to release than what can be absorbed immediately by the surroundings
think high explosives, but on a smaller and much less destructive scale - rapid release of energy...
 
pl4yer0ne said:
i find that its like naming something for what it does... rather than describing what it does.
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That's exactly what it is, because it's a process, not a physical object.

If it was a physical object you could freeze it and weigh it.
 
Why does "will not" abbreviate as "won't"? It makes no sense to me. You're not just shortening, you're changing the letters around or adding some or something.

Stupide.
 
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