Trying to keep up!

1-mil-wordsLooks like the English language will hit one million words in April!!!

Arggghhh!!   I am getting to them all as quickly as I can!!!

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  • http://www.youtube.com/pedantickarl pedanticKarl

    Oh, they forgot one – First!!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Just seen it PK

  • leonard

    work work

  • John

    Sounds like a union job(job security) no offense unionists just a little humor :smile: :smile:

  • leonard

    I have a few dozen of different Dictionaries…even a mason bible :lol:

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    Now I’ll have to buy a new dictionary

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    4th! No rest for the weary! :cool:

  • wetsuit5

    How do we compare with other languages?

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/cufan71 cufan71

    7th & 8th Slow internet :!: :sad:

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwO6kIdgVSU pagedoll

    I’m curious to know if theres a list of words that have been removed from the dictionary. Do some dictionaries have words in them that others don’t :?: Why?
    Where do the lonely removed words go? :sad: Why?
    Sorry, just in a “why” kindda mood. :cool:

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwO6kIdgVSU pagedoll

    I found a list of words that have been removed from a CHILDRENS Oxford Junior Dictionary in Britain. Heres the list :arrow:

    Words taken out:

    Carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe

    Dwarf, elf, goblin

    Abbey, aisle, altar, bishop, chapel, christen, disciple, minister, monastery, monk, nun, nunnery, parish, pew, psalm, pulpit, saint, sin, devil, vicar

    Coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, decade

    adder, ass, beaver, boar, budgerigar, bullock, cheetah, colt, corgi, cygnet, doe, drake, ferret, gerbil, goldfish, guinea pig, hamster, heron, herring, kingfisher, lark, leopard, lobster, magpie, minnow, mussel, newt, otter, ox, oyster, panther, pelican, piglet, plaice, poodle, porcupine, porpoise, raven, spaniel, starling, stoat, stork, terrapin, thrush, weasel, wren.

    Acorn, allotment, almond, apricot, ash, bacon, beech, beetroot, blackberry, blacksmith, bloom, bluebell, bramble, bran, bray, bridle, brook, buttercup, canary, canter, carnation, catkin, cauliflower, chestnut, clover, conker, county, cowslip, crocus, dandelion, diesel, fern, fungus, gooseberry, gorse, hazel, hazelnut, heather, holly, horse chestnut, ivy, lavender, leek, liquorice, manger, marzipan, melon, minnow, mint, nectar, nectarine, oats, pansy, parsnip, pasture, poppy, porridge, poultry, primrose, prune, radish, rhubarb, sheaf, spinach, sycamore, tulip, turnip, vine, violet, walnut, willow

    Heres the whole article :shock: -ing!

  • http://captainjack.ws CaptainJack

    Well Marina You are just going to have to try harder! :twisted: You only have to do about est. 8,330 (est. -417 already done) lessons per day! :roll: You should be able to whip that out no problem! :razz: We know you can do it! :lol:

    ssssshhhhhh. Everyone. Be very nice to Marina. She seems to be a bit loopy today. Just smile and pretend everything is just fine. The guys in the white coats are on their way. :mrgreen:

    Captain Jack LTA

  • http://www.bikengruvin.blogspot.com Recycle-Logical-1

    All the words that people don’t LOVE anymore… get shipped out to a top secret “wordpile” out in the sticks. Maybe some future archaeologist will dig them up and bring them back to life. Who knows… maybe Marina’s Good-lookin’ Great-grand-daughter will start up a thing called DigginForWords! :shock: :lol:

  • fredjr

    Thanks for trying!
    You are doing a wonderful job of introducing people, who otherwise would have no interest, to words.
    You have managed to take generally dull subject matter and give it life!
    Thanks again.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    Where’s all the people that cry censorship when something like this happens. Now if you ban a porno video or a piece of music that’s demeaning to women or children or full of profanity then all of the people come out of the wood work to cry your censoring my freedom of speech or my freedom of expression. This type of censoring of every day words is just so wrong. :evil:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemx32 Capman911

    You mean us Jack? :lol:

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwO6kIdgVSU pagedoll

    Just wait, This is only a scratch on the surface of things to come…you just wait Mr. :sad:

  • thoughtonfire

    Oh crap,

    I brought my brown coat…

  • thoughtonfire

    THE BRITISH ARE COMING!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 melikadothechacha

    Oh Hosani! (yea, I actually read the damn thing) :mrgreen:
    It did remind me of the kangaroo lesson :grin:
    .
    one million bottles of beer on the wall…
    I think I just found the next new forum game – LOL! :twisted:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 melikadothechacha

    They must do that to save paper? :roll:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 melikadothechacha

    Heh heh -homework tooo big of a challenge? :grin:
    Congrats #1 today :mrgreen:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 melikadothechacha

    The Patton quote is a rerun (that makes two!) :arrow:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/bsomebody13 bsomebody

    Wow, it looks like dear teacher needs to get busy. C’mon Teach! We are all pulling for you. :roll:

  • http://www.youtube.com/annuddermale annuddermale

    good luck with that… :cool:

  • http://18wheels.mevio.com/ Warren

    Where are the TA’s when you need them.

  • pandion

    “A million words doesn’t really seem excessive, given 1.35 billion speakers of English on the planet. That works out to only one word for every 1,350 speakers.”

    I feel so left out.
    Does this mean I should talk less?

  • neuroway

    A million of them eh? That’s quite a thundering herd.

    “Si tous les cocus et leurs femmes qui les font se tenoyent tous par la main, et qu’il s’en pust faire un cerne, je croy qu’il seroit assez bastant pour entourner et circuir la moitié de la terre.”
    – Pierre de Bourdeille, Baron de Brantôme (1540 – 1614)

  • neuroway

    Well PD,

    I’d say the lonely words will ride into their setting sun,
    far, far away from their dictionaries… They’ve got a long, long way to roam, so to speak.

  • Chemikal

    I’d like to know that too wetsuit :)

  • mello-g37

    YEA ! 1 mill WOW ! :shock: :smile: :cool:

  • greatestpotential

    :mrgreen: that should keep you busy

  • niteowl

    I think we should have two lessons a day. I’m a glutton for punishment.

    Speaking of glutton, maybe that would be a good word request.

    As always, thank you for your consideration.

  • TitanPA

    At least youll never run out of words or phrases. What will you do when you finished the whole dictionary???? Teach us Math?

    I have a word request. Though it is actually 2 words or maybe its a phrase. Im not too sure:

    Pomp and Circumstance Where did that pharse come from? Why are they always together? Can you ever just have Pomp or Circumstance??? THis confuses me so and I hope you can help out. Hopefully someday you will do a request of mine.

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