Our scoopers have recently learned of a fantastic turn of events for writer and idiot (some say savant) Derek Sonderfan. The Oxford English Dictionary, long considered the authority on words, is amassing new considerations to officially become recognized as standard English words. This happens annually. Recent inductions to the vernacular have included d'oh (2001), 'girl power' (2002), agroterrorism (2006), and my personal favorite, bahookie (2006), which is a Scottish term for a person's buttocks.
So it certainly tickled our cumulative bahookie here at www.esoderek.com to learn that some words that Derek has penned over the years are being considered for inclusion in the next update. Derek has been making up crap for as long as we at his site can remember, and it is about time he is recognized for these achievements. It is actually because of his disdain for Shakespeare that this came about. A while back, Derek had read that over one hundred words and terms did not exist before Shakespeare, and he is given credit for the conception of these words that have ultimately made it into the modern English. Derek thinks that's a load of French bahookie. Often times, Shakespeare made up these words because he needed a word with a certain number of syllables or to start with a certain alliterative consonant. Rather than restructure his sentence using actual words, he took the easy way out and made up a completely new word. Examples of this are "circumstantial", "epileptic", and the very-hard-to-believe-they-didn't-already-exist "bet", "noiseless", and "skim milk."
Derek, upset that when he made up words, they were not immediately used by the rest of society, wrote a plea to the O.E.D. to consider some of the words he had splandied (a word meaning to come up with in a rare moment of unclouded thought). They sent him back a letter, which in NO WAY resembled a form letter, that stated that the English institution would look into his suggestions and get back to him "in a timely fashion." He assumes that means by the end of the week.
Some of the words and their origins can be found here. Keep your fingers crossed that one or more of these gems will make it into the English language, because the world is incomplete without them.
bundit: n - A silly sidekick, comic relief (the play How Horribly...)
manfume: n - A perfume designed for men that for some reason isn't cologne (the play Manfume)
splandy: v - to come up with in a rare moment of unclouded thought (this rumor)
machismeatic: adj - Excessively and unwarrantingly proud (sonnet #48,305)
The Machismeatic 3000: n - A machine that makes one machismeatic (this rumor)
snorn: v - The past tense of 'snare', specifically when you need a rhyme for 'forlorn' (sonnet #48,311)
"to surr your spleech": to be excessively drunk to the point of this phrase being funny (the song Will You Still Love Me When You're Sober?)
jimmyknockered: adj - More drunk still (the song All Chuckled Out)
bahookie-outreach: n - a term for archaic Scottish booty-calls (this rumor)
traumerized: v - too traumatized to say a large word (ABC Radio bit)
Huzza Buzza: a multi-flexible term which can mean just about anything that's awesome (general)
So it certainly tickled our cumulative bahookie here at www.esoderek.com to learn that some words that Derek has penned over the years are being considered for inclusion in the next update. Derek has been making up crap for as long as we at his site can remember, and it is about time he is recognized for these achievements. It is actually because of his disdain for Shakespeare that this came about. A while back, Derek had read that over one hundred words and terms did not exist before Shakespeare, and he is given credit for the conception of these words that have ultimately made it into the modern English. Derek thinks that's a load of French bahookie. Often times, Shakespeare made up these words because he needed a word with a certain number of syllables or to start with a certain alliterative consonant. Rather than restructure his sentence using actual words, he took the easy way out and made up a completely new word. Examples of this are "circumstantial", "epileptic", and the very-hard-to-believe-they-didn't-already-exist "bet", "noiseless", and "skim milk."
Derek, upset that when he made up words, they were not immediately used by the rest of society, wrote a plea to the O.E.D. to consider some of the words he had splandied (a word meaning to come up with in a rare moment of unclouded thought). They sent him back a letter, which in NO WAY resembled a form letter, that stated that the English institution would look into his suggestions and get back to him "in a timely fashion." He assumes that means by the end of the week.
Some of the words and their origins can be found here. Keep your fingers crossed that one or more of these gems will make it into the English language, because the world is incomplete without them.
bundit: n - A silly sidekick, comic relief (the play How Horribly...)
manfume: n - A perfume designed for men that for some reason isn't cologne (the play Manfume)
splandy: v - to come up with in a rare moment of unclouded thought (this rumor)
machismeatic: adj - Excessively and unwarrantingly proud (sonnet #48,305)
The Machismeatic 3000: n - A machine that makes one machismeatic (this rumor)
snorn: v - The past tense of 'snare', specifically when you need a rhyme for 'forlorn' (sonnet #48,311)
"to surr your spleech": to be excessively drunk to the point of this phrase being funny (the song Will You Still Love Me When You're Sober?)
jimmyknockered: adj - More drunk still (the song All Chuckled Out)
bahookie-outreach: n - a term for archaic Scottish booty-calls (this rumor)
traumerized: v - too traumatized to say a large word (ABC Radio bit)
Huzza Buzza: a multi-flexible term which can mean just about anything that's awesome (general)