For the use of dictionaries and other extraneous materials

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Wed May 3 09:49:40 CDT 2006


On May 3, 2006, at 10:19 AM, jd wrote:

> I'm still waiting for
> bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhoun 
> awnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
> to be added to the dictionary.  Joyce would be disgusted!

If writers started using the word (more than one of them) it would  
get picked up by the lexicographers.


"Hierarchitectitiptitoploftical"  never got picked up by other  
writers either.

Too bad, very sonorous.




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