Calling all word lovers...
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sister_luckor 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-01-03 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 08:08 pm (UTC)It's also one of my favourites - there are numerous variations like "one can short of a six pack" etc.
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Date: 2007-01-03 10:45 pm (UTC)one sandwich short of a picknick: we just say he has a screw loose.
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Date: 2007-01-04 02:27 pm (UTC)It's the same in German (eine Schraube locker haben) or another fave (but I don't use it often): nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank haben.