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'Poast'

A combination of Post, poach and roast: used when considering acquiring items for <./>ThePost</.> which include banned words.

First recorded usage: 10.04.03 from shazzPRME to Greebo.

shazz

Does the OED know about this yet.

Not yet... but I'm working on it

On an aside I have already had the honour of creating a new Dutch word and hearing it used by more and more people. I was taking lessons with Kheldar at the time and tried to say the Dutch for 'indeed' which is 'inderdaad'. Sadly, and as usual, I became muddled and came out with 'indeederdaad'. This caused much hilarity and has spread around our local community very satisfactorily now.

shazz

I was considering doing a language trivia of the world section in the article I have a few thoughts already.

"Samantics" ; The art of understanding Samantha?

TM I realise that English is not you first language but that suggestion sucks. I suggest you take more lessons from your fiancee.

Mi Enlghis is extremeli goed so stop whyning...

shazz

How about boondoggle?

I've got one!

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis...

It's a lung condition suffered by miners when the get really tiny pieces of volcanic rock in their lungs, causing breathing difficulties. *Apparently*, it's the longest word in the OED; whether that's still true, I don't know. I've only seen it on h2g2 once: in my Clan Thingite name

Joe C

cerumen-
"a yellow waxy secretion from the glands of the external ear- also called 'earwax'"

and

All in the same expression.

This will definitely be considered for future use how does next Thursday sound to you?

Thursday would be fine.

(looked for the oddest word I could quickly find)

Apparently it was actually sugested earlier, along with 25 other words: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F18707?thread=66900&post=494341#p494341 And used once in a word-knowledge-trivia game.

Makes my life easier that does,

I like dutching
verb, to aply muslin to a theatrical flat

Ooh. Thanks world traveller. Realling interesting one that.

I have found that the game "Beyond Balderdash" is an excellent source for interesting words...one of my family's favorites is:

FARDINGBAG

(Yes, prononuced as it looks.)
Can't remember what it means, though.