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Podcasting Officially a Word

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-consider-myself-a-wordsmith dept.

goldseries writes "The BBC is reporting that the New Oxford American Dictionary is adding podcasting to the dictionary. A year ago it was rejected because not enough people were reading it, but, in a ode to the speed of technology's growth, it is being declared the word of the year. Podcasting has been in the Oxford Dictionary of English since last summer. Podcast beat out words such as lifehack and rootkit for inclusion in the dictionaries. I guess no one needs to know what a rootkit is."

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  1. $sys$ROOTKIT by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now noone will ever know what a rootkit is.

    FYI, if you anagram Podcast, you can come up with 'Stop a CD'

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  2. Re:Why does podcasting need its own word? by spot35 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Probably just feeding the troll but here goes anyway...

    It's less words. It's entered the public consciousness as Podcast. Apparently, "birthplace", "bump", "torture", "olympian", and "mountaineer" weren't discrete words till Shakespeare coined them and they entered the public consciousness.

    Remember, language is a forever mutating beast and will continue to do so, whether you like it or not.

  3. Re:What!? by Big+Nothing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    True, but if you wanna play the numbers-game:

    Only approximately 4.5 million users will be using podcasts by the end of 2005.

    Up to 24 million users may be infected by the SONY rootkits. In addition, there ARE other rootkits out there...

    Ah, well - I just felt like being a smart-ass.

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