Oxford English Dictionary extends hunt for regional words around the world
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#2Anyone interested in this might also like the Dictionary of American Regional English:
(unfortunately, not free for full access)
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#3Does anyone know where the OED draws the line on niche jargon and slang? There’s a lot of self-conscious neologism and silliness in in publications such as The New Hacker’s Dictionary and Urbandictionary, but also a lot of genuine words that have genuine meaning in niche communities.
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#4nice blog nice forum https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17358570
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#6Does anyone know where the OED draws the line on niche jargon and slang? There’s a lot of self-conscious neologism and silliness in in publications such as The New Hacker’s Dictionary and Urbandictionary, but also a lot of genuine words that have genuine meaning in niche communities.
It seems to avoid niche and profession specific coinages pretty well so they must be looking for candidates to spill over into more general usage.
I wonder if they're uniq -c everything lodged at the British Library each year.
They're descriptive rather than prescriptive so are constantly adapting to new usages, and spellings. Which probably means that it's only a matter of time before "loose" is an accepted spelling of "lose" rather than an entirely different meaning. :(
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#7Does anyone know where the OED draws the line on niche jargon and slang? There’s a lot of self-conscious neologism and silliness in in publications such as The New Hacker’s Dictionary and Urbandictionary, but also a lot of genuine words that have genuine meaning in niche communities.
We have whoadie which means you're from the same ward (or any ward) eg. 7th Ward.
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#8Does anyone know where the OED draws the line on niche jargon and slang? There’s a lot of self-conscious neologism and silliness in in publications such as The New Hacker’s Dictionary and Urbandictionary, but also a lot of genuine words that have genuine meaning in niche communities.
This is what they say: https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/our-story/creating-dictio...
"Before adding a word to one of our dictionaries we have to see evidence that it is widely used in print or online."
Which doesn't really answer the question but "widely used" tends to suggest something beyond technical jargon or niche slang.
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#9Does anyone know where the OED draws the line on niche jargon and slang? There’s a lot of self-conscious neologism and silliness in in publications such as The New Hacker’s Dictionary and Urbandictionary, but also a lot of genuine words that have genuine meaning in niche communities.
Is "doh" still relevant today. 50 years from now?
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#10Does anyone know where the OED draws the line on niche jargon and slang? There’s a lot of self-conscious neologism and silliness in in publications such as The New Hacker’s Dictionary and Urbandictionary, but also a lot of genuine words that have genuine meaning in niche communities.
It seems to avoid niche and profession specific coinages pretty well so they must be looking for candidates to spill over into more general usage. I wonder if they're uniq -c everything lodged at the British Library each year. They're descriptive rather than prescriptive so are constantly adapting to new usages, and spellings. Which probably means that it's only a matter of time before "loose" is an accepted spelling…
I was going to write something more cranky, and then I looked at your username and had a laugh. Irregardless of your perceptive on this, it is good to be self-conscience.