adopt a word!

[Benjamin Zimmer]

This appears to be a promotion of Oxford Fajar, the Malaysian
subsidiary of Oxford University Press.


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> >
> > By DAN RESTIONE @ KIRO Radio
> > Save the seals, save the whales, but what about saving the words?
> >
> > "Crassulent or Jobler." I bet you haven't heard those recently and
> > that worries the folks at Oxford University, who's press comes out
> > with the Holy Bible of words: the Oxford English Dictionary.
> >
> > Every year, hundreds of seldom used, but very cool words, are
> > dropped from dictionaries, so Oxford has started the "Save the
> > Words" campaign.
> >
> > All you have to do is sign on to savethewords.org and pick a poor,
> > little endangered word, adopt it, and pledge to work it into
> > everyday conversation as much as you can. You even get a certificate
> > of adoption and you can order a t-shirt with your word child on it.
> >
> > I'm now the proud father of "crassulent," which means fat and as you
> > see, I've used it twice already.
>
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