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Hello! I am an administrator over at the English Wikipedia next door. You can find my user page there, with much more information about me.
I have an interest in protologisms, slang/jargon, and rare English words.
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Word of the day
for March 29 | |
misfield v (baseball, cricket, rugby) | |
misfield n The American songwriter Albert Von Tilzer, who composed the music to the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)—the unofficial anthem of North American baseball—was born on this day in 1878. (The lyricist of the song, Jack Norworth, died 65 years ago on September 1, 1959.) | |
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Foreign word of the day in Italian | ||
sdoganare verb
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- Concordance:Hardy
- Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English (2009 Wayback Machine archive)
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- Other words
- Just some made-up words (neologisms) that sound like they could be English words
- ...and as it turned out, some of them actually really were English words!
- communited, comminited, commonance
- prommonance, precompense, compresense
- comprensation, compersation, compise