Dear Mr Press
Before I start I feel I should give you a friendly word of warning. I recently purchased a dictionary from your arch rivals the Cambridge University Press. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the words in there are remarkably similar to the ones in your own book. They even have put them in the same order! If I were you I should get your copyright lawyers on the case straight away.
Anyway, onto the main point of my letter. I hereby submit my proposal for a new word for the next edition of your dictionary. As you can see it covers a function in the language which is currently left unserved.
Disglightful
adjective. [dis-glahyt-fuhl]A simultaneously revolting and charming moment. Example of use: Evan pulled the soggy half eaten lump of bread from his mouth, let it pause on his snot covered upper lip, then gently and lovingly tried to feed it to his father. “Disglightful” thought Dan.
I look forward to receiving my first royalty check with anticipation
Yours sincerely
Dan Hughes BA(hons) BSc(hons) RMN.
Age 31 â…”
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on Oct 19th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
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on Oct 19th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Sounds like a portmanteau to me =)
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on Oct 20th, 2007 at 12:45 am
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on Oct 20th, 2007 at 5:15 am
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on Oct 20th, 2007 at 8:14 am
It all makes perfect sense now doesn’t it ?
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on Oct 20th, 2007 at 10:19 am
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on Oct 20th, 2007 at 11:33 am
What strange creatures…
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on Oct 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
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on Oct 20th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Of course there will have to be an American English word to counter, something like grossweet. That’s the best I can do on short notice and lack of university degree.
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on Oct 21st, 2007 at 7:07 am
[...] I stole this idea from here so please don’t tell the real Dan! The Brits still haven’t gotten over the whole David [...]
on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 3:02 pm
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on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 6:14 pm
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on Oct 25th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
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