MAMIL added to Oxford Dictionary

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  • December 15, 2014 at 6:58 pm #1016992
    mstone
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    @PotomacCyclist 102019 wrote:

    Plus you can use the term in a formal paper without getting your knuckles rapped by the Wordsmith Gatekeeper

    …so long as said gatekeeper doesn’t notice that it’s annotated as “informal”.

    December 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm #1016993
    Crickey7
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    I wouldn’t get too excited. “Muffin top” made the Oxford dictionary, too.

    December 15, 2014 at 7:08 pm #1016995
    PotomacCyclist
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    You are now allowed to use MAMIL and muffin top in conversations with MLA members (Modern Language Association), so there’s that.

    December 15, 2014 at 7:08 pm #1016996
    Orestes Munn
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    @Crickey7 102021 wrote:

    I wouldn’t get too excited. “Muffin top” made the Oxford dictionary, too.

    The terms have intersecting extensions, one notes.

    December 15, 2014 at 8:48 pm #1017011
    Vicegrip
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    @Orestes Munn 102024 wrote:

    The terms have intersecting extensions, one notes.

    I have seen the two terms intersect not only in the extensions but in the body too.

    December 15, 2014 at 9:20 pm #1017020
    kwarkentien
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    So how come there’s no MAWIL? or MAWIS? I’m feeling discriminated against here.
    😎

    December 15, 2014 at 9:24 pm #1017021
    Orestes Munn
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    @kwarkentien 102048 wrote:

    So how come there’s no MAWIL? or MAWIS? I’m feeling discriminated against here.
    😎

    Some of us angels fear to tread there.

    December 15, 2014 at 9:28 pm #1017022
    cyclingfool
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    Tribalization FTW.

    I’m a TSMIASCS (Thirty Something Male in Athletic Shorts or Cargo Shorts). When will we get a dictionary entry? Probably not at least until I’m a FSMIASCS (Forty Something…) :)

    December 15, 2014 at 9:45 pm #1017026
    PotomacCyclist
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    Every new word has to get a start somewhere. Start using the word. Then suggest that a “friend” add it to those online slang dictionaries to make it semi-official official. Then more people will use it. City Paper will start using it. Then mainstream sources will pick up on it, thinking that it’s the hip new word. Then a friend of a friend of a friend of an editor who happens to know someone at Oxford (or at the American Heritage Dictionary or Merriam-Webster) will cudgel or threaten to cudgel one of said dictionary arbiters with a stale baguette if they don’t include the word in the next edition of the dictionary. And that’s how it’s done. It’s actually written that way in the manual, “How Words Get Into Dictionarys ‘n Stuf.”

    P.S. Stale baguettes can be quite hard.

    December 16, 2014 at 4:07 pm #1017085
    Riley Casey
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    Perhaps there simply isn’t enough room on the head of this particular pin? :p

    @kwarkentien 102048 wrote:

    So how come there’s no MAWIL? or MAWIS? I’m feeling discriminated against here.
    😎

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