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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. Including rootkit would be more consistent by dascandy · · Score: 5, Funny

    > ... but we found that not enough people were using it, or were even familiar with the concept ...

    Thanks to Sony and the like, there are more than enough people running a rootkit, so include the word already...

  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. Rootkit is in the New Oxford American Dictionary.. by Afecks · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..you just can't see it ;)

  4. Excuse me? by springbox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's just a fad word for downloading audio from the Internet. This pretty much summarizes it. How did it get added to the dictionary so fast? It's not even generic - it was created in part based on a modern day product. If anything, it should be going into a slang reference guide not a dictionary.

  5. podcast or blogcast? by hutteman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Microsoft employees can now stop calling them blogcasts