Words from Popular Literature Not in OED

[Wilson Gray]

And that's why we love both you and HDAS, Jon!

-Wilson

On 11/3/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> HDAS is filled to the gunwales with such terms, of a certain kind.
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> And even though the level of usage of these terms *be* minimal, I'm
> completely in agreement with you, Fred. That's why the term, "hapax
> legomenon," was invented.
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> -Wilson
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> On 11/3/06, Fred Shapiro wrote:
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> > It seems to me that the OED includes many terms of highly limited
> > currency, yet I see terms from important novels not being included.
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> > For example, "granfalloon" and "karass" from Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" are
> > omitted. "Melange" from the Dune novels, which falls with the
> > alphabetical range of the OED revision, is also omitted.
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> > Another word not in OED, from a comic-book provenance rather than from a
> > novel, is "kryptonite." Surely this is 1000 times more frequently used
> > than many of the terms in OED.
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> > Fred Shapiro
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--
Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep
a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.

--Sam Clemens

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