WOOT WOOT WOOT!!

[RudolfTheRed]

im still waiting for the release of the oxford english dictionary third edition...

slated for 2037!!!!!

no joke!!!

from wiki:

The Oxford English Dictionary Third Edition, or OED3, is intended as a nearly complete overhaul of the work. Each word is being examined and revised to improve the accuracy of the definitions, derivations, pronunciations, and historical quotations—a task requiring the efforts of a staff consisting of more than 300 scholars, researchers, readers, and consultants, and projected to cost about $55 million. The result is expected to double the overall length of the text. The style of the dictionary will also change slightly. The original text was more literary, in that most of the quotations were taken from novels, plays, and other literary sources. The new edition, however, will reference all manner of printed resources, such as cookbooks, wills, technical manuals, specialist journals, and rock lyrics. The pace of inclusion of new words has been increased to the rate of about 4,000 a year. As of 2007, the estimated date of completion is 2037.

 

[Phillthy]

cool gift! happy birthday!

 

[zymos]

Genkisan's word of the day:





etoain shrdlu

It's the frequency of occurrence of letters in the English language, but I had no idea it was considered a "word" by the OED.

It's how I always win in Hangman....

 

[cooked cook]

Too cool genkisan.
Happy birthday, bro, with your young self....ok, I don't have THAT many years on you.It's just high mileage. Glad to seeya still hangin around this place. You're an oldschool kinda guy that still believes in "outdated ideas" like books. hehehe And YEAH big difference between digitized information and real books, well I suppose if you appreciate your REAL wife more than your wife on secondlife or another "virtual world".

cookie

 

[High Country]

Good on yah...all I got when I was 40 was a divorce.

 

[supermanlives]

do you plan on reading them all? or is it just for refrence? me i would be pissed off if thats what i got. but everyone is different and atleast its a great dictionary

 

[IE2KS_KUSH]

do you plan on reading them all? or is it just for refrence? me i would be pissed off if thats what i got. but everyone is different and atleast its a great dictionary

I look at them all I see is worm food

 

[supermanlives]

naw they look great on shelves in a library

 

[Vash]

Happy Belated Bitrhday, G

 

[genkisan]

do you plan on reading them all? or is it just for refrence? me i would be pissed off if thats what i got. but everyone is different and atleast its a great dictionary

I will be reading nothing else until I make it thru all 22 000 pages.

I have wanted one since I was 8 years old...and vowed to read it cover to cover if I ever got one.....and I will.


AND I'll have oodles of fun doing so......

 

[h^2 O]

Genki whats it say under "fanny"?

 

[genkisan]

there are 5 different entries for fanny

It can refer to [1]a fan used in the scissor-grinding industry (circa 1892), [2]a tin holding anything to be drunk or a messkettle( circa 1904), [3]the word formed by the initials First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (circa 1918), [4]the backside (U.S. origin, circa 1928) or the female genitals (U.K. origin, circa 1879) or [5] a verb meaning to decieve or persuade by glib talk (circa 1933)


And thats why I love this book.......it has EVERYTHING.

 

[h^2 O]

hehehe thanks Genki! So in British English fanny means vajayjay...and it means butt in American English... was talking to osmeone about this the other day. Thanks bro!

 

[nattynattygurrl]

im still waiting for the release of the oxford english dictionary third edition... slated for 2037!!!!! no joke!!!

The people working on that certainly have some job security.

Originally Posted by h^2 O: Genki whats it say under "fanny"?

So Genkisan, what's today's word??

 

[genkisan]

The people working on that certainly have some job security.



So Genkisan, what's today's word??

Indeed they have some job security...all 300 of them. Amazing the things you can do with a 55 million dollar revision budget.....



I'll get back to you on today's word.....gonna start perusing Volume I this afternoon

 

[genkisan]

Well, no word of the day today....still reading the forward, general explanations and the stuff at the beginning.


Let me tell you, Sir James Murray and his successors did NOT FUCK AROUND....this book is incredible, and should be read by anyone who like language and words.

 

[longearedfriend]

I was expecting you to get something related to insects

happy birthday

enjoy your books
I know I would

 

[genkisan]

Well...I have finished the General Explanations and am starting on the section detailing the history of the OED. I should be getting to first entry (the letter "a") by the weekend.


There are 6 pages for the letter "a" by the way........