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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. Woot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Woot!

  2. Podcasts, who has the time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Any here has the time to listen to these podcasts? Why are people wasting their time to three or four people who'll be listening to them?

    American Idol showed the world how many crazy people exist in this world. Are most podcasters and even bloggers the manifestation of these crazy people?

  3. Re:What!? by Tiro · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Merry Fitzmas!

  4. Re:One slight error in article: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And he is also an annoying fat cunt