May 19, 2005

And let's not forget "stoopidhead: someone who doesn't know how to spell the word they made up" . .

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The editors of the Miriam-Webster Dictionary have assembled a list of “Top Ten Favorite Words Not in the Dictionary,” based on suggestions sent in to its website by “vocabularians.” The company says it got so many thousands of suggestions that “we craughed (to cry and laugh simultaneously).” Among the winners: At number 2, “confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time”; at number 7, “phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number”: and, at number 10, “lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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