“Podcast” (a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar programme, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player) is now an official part of the English language, as the word has been included in the Oxford Dictionary.
Other words making the big time include:
• clueful: adjective informal having knowledge or understanding of something; well informed: Rob Enderle is not very clueful about Apple Macintosh computers.
• fanboy: noun informal a male fan, especially one who is obsessive about comics, music, film, or science fiction: Paul Thurrott is (or was?) a Microsoft fanboy.
• offshoring: noun [mass noun] the practice of basing some of a company’s processes or services overseas, so as to take advantage of lower costs: Dell’s phone support offshoring was an abysmal failure.
• supersize: adjective larger than average or standard sizes; extremely large. verb [with obj.] [often as adj.] (supersized) greatly increase the size of: The gleeful RealNetworks CEO ordered a supersized box of Krispy Kremes.
See the new words recently added to the Oxford Dictionary here.
For those who might be wondering, “iPod” is already in the Oxford Dictionary and defined as “a proprietary name for a personal audio player.”
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It’s about time…..this may be the first, but I seriously doubt it will be the last!
“Open the iPod bay doors, Hal.”
And MS proposed “blogcast” !!! Too late !!! LOL
LOL Note to M$…you can start rightfully calling them Podcasts now. Just check the dictionary…
So much for Micro$oft trying to change the term Podcast to one of their own!
Looks like Microsoft’s effort to alienate the word podcast has failed abismally.
Looks like they didn’t pay-off the right guys this time!
cavepainter-
i love that. i love it.
Open the iPod bay doors Hal…. brilliant
Nice one, cavepainter!
“The gleeful RealNetworks CEO ordered a supersized box of Krispy Kremes.”
Aww, shit, I think I might’ve messed myself upon reading that one!
I wish there was a way to have an automatic update to my dictionaries on my computers.
Interestingly if you hover over iPod and hit Ctrl-Cmd-D then the Oxford dictionary that comes with Mac OSX says ‘No entries found.’ Doh!
ctrl-cmd-d! How awesome – I didn’t even know about this feature until reading the comment from Phil C!
AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOVE IT
talk about kicking m$ a good one
It’s pretty fun to look through that list, though there are plenty of oddities.
I’ve never heard “chugger” before–expect in the context of “one who chugs.” I’ve never heard “Hinglish” before, but it’s just a variation on Spanglish and Vietlish. I’ve never heard “Overdog” before–even though it makes sense. I suppose Apple is the underdog and Microsoft is the overdog.
I was surprised to see “dramedy” and “eighty-six” as recently added.
And, of course, it’s nice to see that “wiki” has finally been added as “a website or database developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content.”
Oh! And I wonder when we’ll see “blogcast” in the dictionary.
I’m betting on…hmm…Never?
:^)
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Wow there is really something happening with the iPod and Apple that is bigger than the sum of it’s parts!
here is an Online Talking Dictionary
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