With the English language now containing more than a million words... built, begged, borrowed and stolen, it's time you had your say.
AWOYO is a non-profit organisation that helps you develop, market and manage your very own word. Now, instead of hoping that your word will somehow catch on, AWOYO will actively pursue placement and inclusion for your word in all of the right places, be they medical journals or manga books.
With extensive contacts in the newspaper, advertising, marketing, television, editing and writing fraternities, AWOYO can promote your word through to listing in the OED or even further, to ensure your linguistic brainchild attains the immortality in print that it deserves.-- UnaBubba, Oct 28 2009 Hwoorangshamen [+]-- zen_tom, Oct 28 2009 Can we have a disease named after you ? Something unpleasant, painful and embarrassing, probably sexually transmitted ....
Or maybe "Bubitis", a massive inflammation of the ego ...-- 8th of 7, Oct 28 2009 Wasn't this baked by "the artist formerly known as Prince"? I wonder if that symbol ever made it into any significant journal. I bet some college student wrote a thesis on it.
I'm bunning anyway as I want my word to be a new irrational number.-- MisterQED, Oct 28 2009 Neonaxogrenic caraplastic expondency [+].-- nineteenthly, Oct 28 2009 Can I grab improper but widely used words? Irregardless? Masonary? Nucular?-- bdag, Oct 28 2009 Bagsy me recieved-- pocmloc, Oct 28 2009 Royalties - I want royalties.-- normzone, Oct 28 2009 Gee, [8/7], I'd heard that Condyloma acuminata were named after you? Tell me it isn't true, old friend.-- UnaBubba, Oct 28 2009 Bubitis: priceless, pure brilliance.
When I studied dutch we were asked to make a poem, dutch sounding, made up entirely of nonexistent words. My first word was Podeliemboembiemba. Spoken in a dutch accent. This word still has a great value for me.-- zeno, Oct 29 2009 Oh and by the way: oolongftangftangbank!-- zeno, Oct 29 2009 Gwinney Pig: Guinea Pigs that aren't from Guinea.
Chineses: multiple Chinese people.
PH 1: phone, get it?
Porkins: fat people
Corto: office employee code-word for a corporate tool.
And I want a dollar every time one of those is printed.-- 21 Quest, Oct 29 2009 Well, seeing as the OED proudly states their aim as "At least 1,800 new and revised words are released each quarter," - I'm sure this is just the logical next step.
Is it just me, or is setting a target for including X new words per year a little bit self-serving (not to mention harmful to the language as a whole)? I mean I'm all for evolution of the language as needs and or usage demands, but actually setting a goal for how much to change? That's bizarre.-- Custardguts, Oct 29 2009 Nucular Hedge: A long line of Bushes-- UnaBubba, Oct 30 2009 Shirley the real money is in having words named after oneself, like stars?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 30 2009 "Cause I speak of the pompatus of love." Steve Miller-- dentworth, Nov 01 2009 I thought they named a demon after you, [MB]?-- UnaBubba, Nov 02 2009 Blarmy!-- iron_horse, Nov 02 2009 // they named a demon after you //
No, but they named a brand of coffee afre his residence.....-- 8th of 7, Nov 02 2009 halfbakery