The Rumpus.net » OED http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Tue, 21 May 2013 21:10:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Plight of the Anglocentric Dictionary http://therumpus.net/2012/11/the-plight-of-the-anglocentric-dictionary/ http://therumpus.net/2012/11/the-plight-of-the-anglocentric-dictionary/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:40:48 +0000 Julie Morse http://therumpus.net/?p=108266 Beware–your Oxford English Dictionary is missing thousands of words!

It has been revealed that former OED editor, the late Robert Burchfield secretly deleted thousands of words that he deemed too “foreign” and placed the blame on other editors. Allison Flood at The Guardian dispels the rumors.

]]> Beware–your Oxford English Dictionary is missing thousands of words!

It has been revealed that former OED editor, the late Robert Burchfield secretly deleted thousands of words that he deemed too “foreign” and placed the blame on other editors. Allison Flood at The Guardian dispels the rumors.

“Examples of Burchfield’s deleted words include balisaur, an Indian badger-like animal; the American English wake-up, a golden-winged woodpecker; boviander, the name in British Guyana for a person of mixed race living on the river banks; and danchi, a Bengali shrub.”

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/11/the-plight-of-the-anglocentric-dictionary/feed/ 0 This Is Why the UK Always Seems So Much Smarter Than the US http://therumpus.net/2012/11/this-is-why-the-uk-always-seems-so-much-smarter-than-the-us/ http://therumpus.net/2012/11/this-is-why-the-uk-always-seems-so-much-smarter-than-the-us/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:45:47 +0000 Lauren ONeal http://therumpus.net/?p=107880 The Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is “omnishambles,” while the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year is…”GIF.”

We can’t even agree on how to pronounce GIF!

The British runners-up underscore our cultural differences as well; “mummy porn,” for example, sounds a little stranger to the Yankee ear than it probably did to the OED judges.

]]> The Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is “omnishambles,” while the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year is…”GIF.”

We can’t even agree on how to pronounce GIF!

The British runners-up underscore our cultural differences as well; “mummy porn,” for example, sounds a little stranger to the Yankee ear than it probably did to the OED judges.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/11/this-is-why-the-uk-always-seems-so-much-smarter-than-the-us/feed/ 0 Tweetin, Not Twitchin http://therumpus.net/2011/07/tweetin-not-twitchin/ http://therumpus.net/2011/07/tweetin-not-twitchin/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:00:22 +0000 Sam Riley http://therumpus.net/?p=83877 What’s in a name? For companies like twitter, a lot of potential profits and some OED support.

These are the reasons we’re not jittering or twitching, which were both potential candidates for the company’s name. You can follow the trajectory of how twitter’s title came to be here.

]]> What’s in a name? For companies like twitter, a lot of potential profits and some OED support.

These are the reasons we’re not jittering or twitching, which were both potential candidates for the company’s name. You can follow the trajectory of how twitter’s title came to be here.

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