highfly 0 #1 August 10, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4136108.stm 'Ruby Murray' officially English Fancy a Ruby Murray? Old phrase, new entry "Rocking up" to a restaurant for a "Ruby Murray" is now officially part of the English language, with the phrases making it into the Oxford Dictionary. The latest edition defines rock up as arrive, or turn up, and Ruby Murray as rhyming slang for a curry. Other new words to make the cut include "lush" - meaning very good - and "phishing", sending fraudulent emails to get hold of personal information. The old rhyming slang for tea, "Rosie Lee", also makes it for the first time. And "chav" appears, an increasingly used derogatory word to describe a "young lower-class person typified by brash and loutish behaviour and the wearing of [real or imitation] designer clothes". New words being added simply reflect the fact that the language naturally keeps expanding, said researchers at the Oxford Dictionary of English. Lollywood "To suit the pace of lifestyle there is even a growing tendency to mix words together to make entirely new ones called blends," they said. A person who approaches passers-by in the street looking for donations or subscriptions to a charity is now officially a "chugger" - a mixture of charity and mugger. A type of English used by speakers of Hindi - "Hinglish" - is another new entry this year. And Lollywood joins Bollywood in the English language, this time describing the Pakistani popular film industry based in Lahore. Vicky Pollard, from the BBC's Little Britain, was the ultimate "chav" Musical references like "beatbox", "Europop", "J-pop" (Japanese pop music), and "sing-jay" (a Dj who raps and sings) also make the grade. On the technology front, "chip and pin" (a new way of paying for goods by debit or credit card) makes it into the dictionary, as does "gamepad" (hand-held controls for video games). "Podcast" (digital recording of a radio broadcast made available on the internet for downloading to a personal audio player) is also included. Researchers said the dictionary now included 350 ways of insulting someone, but only 40 expressions to compliment them. www.myspace.com/durtymac Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumprunner 0 #2 August 10, 2005 Well Im surprised words like "Ho" and "Homey" didnt make it. What is the English language comming to? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #3 August 10, 2005 I didn't see Beatlemania...the world is coming to an end!My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #4 August 10, 2005 NEW WORDS FOR 2005 -- Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary: BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than by working hard. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. (What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.) STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Anna Nicole show or the Bachelor is a prime example. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" (meaning that the requested document, like the person's brain, could not be located.) GENERICA: Features of the North American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (I HAVE HAD A FEW OF THESE! :) WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust(leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING).My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
highfly 0 #5 August 10, 2005 QuoteSEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. LMFAO We have so many managers like that www.myspace.com/durtymac Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skinnyshrek 0 #6 August 10, 2005 Andy you need to answer your dog and bone so i can sort out the card game with the 4X2http://www.skydivethefarm.com do you realize that when you critisize people you dont know over the internet, you become part of a growing society of twats? ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #7 August 10, 2005 QuoteAndy you need to answer your dog and bone so i can sort out the card game with the 4X2 Huh???????????? Speak English you, you BRIT! My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Elisha 1 #8 August 10, 2005 Dude, those are SOOOO not 2005. Those are from Dilbert and a good 5 years old. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
