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Tuesday 18 January 2005

Word Play

I'm a sucker for Collins' Living Dictionary, primarily because of things like this.

Admittedly, it can get a bit like Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's "The Meaning of Liff", but I always felt that words from that fine tome should enter general usage. Why, just this morning, I was caught out and subsequently embarrassed by an esher.

Some suggestions to the living dictionary are very much of their time, and likely to fall out of use very quickly, others are unlikely to catch on, however much they should; but there are some really good suggestions that just might break through into general use. (And I've only got as far as 'B'!)