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Another language filled with adverbs.

Now in addition to PIN Numbers and ATM Machines, we'll have the DATA Act.

• ConMan (well, depending on the quality of the merge)
  
• Drake Connect (useful if anyone wants to set up a Romanized dragon dating servce)
  
• IvaSoft (Adult themes get searched more than anything else)
  
• Floccinaucinihilipilihication would seem to be appropriate, as would Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. These would seem to be much more memorable.
  

It's a Tom Swifty. Looks like someone didn't read their Boy's Life when they were a kid!

I'm not sure if you can really get a good idea of how self-maintaining Wikipedia is from this experiment. It seems to me that Wikipedia is mostly used by geeks, so the five entries he edited aren't ones that I would think would be read as often, as, say, an article on two's compliment numbers. Who's to say that some of these pages were even viewed by more than one or two people in the time he allowed for them to be fixed?

With that in mind, I'd rather seen an experiment that tries to determine how many times a page is viewed before it gets altered. I bet if one of the edits he had made were to introduce some sort of error into the database normalization page's explanation of third normal form, it would be a lot more likely to be noticed within two days.

Stil, shame on anyone who takes any encyclopedia or other reference book as unquestionable authority. Any collection of information that dense is going to be full of errors like made-up words and the like.

And right now some law firm could be tracking down every use of the phrase 'Murphy's law' on behalf of the family of Capt. Edward A. Murphy and some other law firm could be tracking down every use of 'Spoonerism' for the family of The Reverend W. A. Spooner... They'll get to Furphy sooner or later, as well.

Not to mention McDonald's absurd claim of trademark on the 'Mc' prefix!

This is the insanity that the concept of 'Intellectual Property' has condemned us to. When will the public get fed-up enough to rebel and prod the Congress to moderate the law?

The OED doesn't "define British English". See Lexicographer" as defined by the Devil's Dictionary.