Thieves Like Us » dictionary http://egbt.com/blog In which we explore our shared interests in music, vice, and ideas. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:42:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Save The Words http://egbt.com/blog/2009/02/02/save-the-words/ http://egbt.com/blog/2009/02/02/save-the-words/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:40:28 +0000 Brian Mars http://egbt.com/blog/?p=371 Oxford University Press is running http://savethewords.org to promote literacy by giving people a chance to adopt older words that have fallen out of use.

I am all for adding meh and wonky and email to the dictionaries, but it shouldn’t be at the expense of older words. It’s not like there is a letter shortage and they need to be repurposed.

So I adopted two words. Yeah, I roll like that. Use them in your daily life, and adopt a couple of your own.

sevedical – speaking cruel or harsh words

and

magistracide – the killing of a master or teacher

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