Calling all word lovers...

or should that be logophiles?

As some of you know I'm always interested in the origin of words, in new phrases and love collecting words I'll never use.

It looks like I'm not the only one and especially with a language as creative as English with its rhyming slang, portmanteau words and so on there is always something new to discover.

But when did these wonderful new words and phrases first appear? The OED with a little help from the BBC would like to know.

There are eight different categories (and there were a couple of new words to collect for me) and even most of the category names are a joy:

Man's Best Friend

Put Downs and Insults

Spend a Penny

Fashionistas

I love what they have to say about flip-flops, because the first proper word I knew for them were the Antipodean terms.

X Rated

One Sandwich Short

Who Were They?

Dodgy Dealings

For the folks who are "mighty of the German" as we would say, here's a link to a more less daily blog about new and old German words: Wortistik.