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Oxford English Dictionary Extends Hunt For Regional Words Around the World (theguardian.com)
The Oxford English Dictionary is asking the public to help it mine the regional differences of English around the world to expand its record of the language, with early submissions ranging from New Zealand's "munted" to Hawaii's "hammajang." From a report: Last year, a collaboration between the OED, the BBC and the Forward Arts Foundation to find and define local English words resulted in more than 100 new regional words and phrases being added to the dictionary, from Yorkshire's "ee bah gum" to the north east's "cuddy wifter," a left-handed person. Now, the OED is widening its search to English speakers around the world, with associate editor Eleanor Maier calling the early response "phenomenal," as editors begin to draft a range of suggestions for inclusion in the dictionary.
These range from Hawaii's "hammajang," meaning "in a disorderly or shambolic state," to the Scottish word for a swimming costume, "dookers" or "duckers," and New Zealand's "munted," meaning "broken or wrecked." The OED is also looking to include the word "chopsy," a Welsh term for an overly talkative person; "frog-drowner," which Americans might use to describe a torrential downpour of rain; "brick", which means "very cold" to residents of New Jersey and New York City; and "round the Wrekin", meaning "in a lengthy or roundabout manner" in the Midlands. The dictionary has already found that, depending on location, a picture hanging askew might be described as "agley," "catawampous," "antigodlin" or "ahoo" by an English speaker, while a loved one could be called a "doy," "pet," "dou-dou," "bubele," "alanna" or "babber."
These range from Hawaii's "hammajang," meaning "in a disorderly or shambolic state," to the Scottish word for a swimming costume, "dookers" or "duckers," and New Zealand's "munted," meaning "broken or wrecked." The OED is also looking to include the word "chopsy," a Welsh term for an overly talkative person; "frog-drowner," which Americans might use to describe a torrential downpour of rain; "brick", which means "very cold" to residents of New Jersey and New York City; and "round the Wrekin", meaning "in a lengthy or roundabout manner" in the Midlands. The dictionary has already found that, depending on location, a picture hanging askew might be described as "agley," "catawampous," "antigodlin" or "ahoo" by an English speaker, while a loved one could be called a "doy," "pet," "dou-dou," "bubele," "alanna" or "babber."
"Hack" - 2018 definition: nobody even fucking knows anymore, and this word is used and abused by everyone to mean anything they want it to mean.
So we are looking for another slew of words of the moment like jiggy and bling to shit up the dictionary with?
White people we're a mistake
with delusions and fantasies: a Creimer.
this is how marxism works. undermine the english language by promoting forign languages at OUR expense. outrageous. i am massively offended and outraged at this attack against america.
They venture north into Wisconsin for summer and winter activities.
" darkain " - 2018 definition: nobody even fucking cares about you,.
Ayuh.
Another one of those mass-data collection schemes where you need to subscribe to their service to see any of it. No thanks. You can't even look up a word on their website without being a subscriber.
how common was it before the internet for the dictionary to add random nonsense? kind of liked it better when the dictionary was an authority on what was and was not a word, so that you could be like "that is not a word" instead of everything just becoming a word. but maybe they have always been adding stuff and it just wasn't obvious because nobody ever bought new dictionaries, we all just used the one our parents gave us that their parents gave them over and over and over.
That babbling is proof that IQ has dropped across Western Nations the past several decades.
"frog-drowner," which Americans might use to describe a torrential downpour of rain; "brick", which means "very cold" to residents of New Jersey and New York City;
I live in New Jersey, USA, and have never heard either of these terms. How far down the rathole of subculture usage are they going to go?
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Chopsy is used all over the UK. The OED needs better research. Much like Bill Bryson claimed that slobberchops died out in the 18th century, yet I was called it as a kid.
Whoever thought this up is a reet doylem.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"Bubele" isn't from a (current*) regional dialect of English, it's Yiddish.
* You could make the roundabout argument that Yiddish, as a derivative of early German, is a dialect of the precursor to English, but I doubt anyone thinks of it that way.
I have lived in 20 different states, yet this eludes me. who the hell says frog-downer to describe rain? where are they from?
I have never heard a Kiwi describe something as munted without the obligatory expletive prefix.
while a loved one could be called a "doy," "pet," "dou-dou," "bubele," "alanna" or "babber."
Sorry, socially inept slashdotters. swn be your babber.
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"Brick" Meaning very cold to someone from New Jersey or NYC. As if.. never heard it used that way before and doubt I ever will. Total Rubbish :)
But do they catalog "steamed hams" and its unique usage in Albany (though not Utica)?
To see such pericombobulation.
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There are lots of interesting English words used only in foreign langage speaking world; in France, words like "relooking" (makeover) , "footing" (jogging), or "smoking" (tuxedo) come to mind
Bannon recently coined a new regional word usage... Vernacular is now means speech peppered with lies, distortions and misrepresentations.
As far as I can tell, only in Utah is the word "bowery" used for a covered pavilion in a park where you can eat a picnic at a table.
Because he was posting only to include links. Oh looks like you're talking about X here is a link to a book about slightly related subject Y!
After he did it too much and people complained then he got extremely lippy and told us to suck it because he had so much karma saved up that there wasn't anything we could do.
It takes me very little time to deal with chris. I wrote that copypasta as an alternative to the long and uninformative FLCM spam in about 15 minutes. I don't post most of the copies it's FCLM or someone else, maybe multiple other people.
This is the plan, explain to the rest of slashdot why people don't like chris instead of annoying everyone so that managing chris will involve a small amount of effort from a large number of people. Since you were still confused after reading the pasta faq I'll have to write up and link to a larger offsite faq with detailed descriptions and links to examples of chris's rude comments and spamming behavior.
Chris really needs to get off slashdot and pay his credit cards