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One millionth English word could be 'defriend' or 'noob' The milestone will be passed at 10.22am on June 10 according to the Global Language Monitor, an association of academics that tracks the use of new words.
The widespread popularity of English as a second language in Asia has brought about the most fertile period of word generation since William Shakespeare's time with new terms coined on average every 98 minutes, the Texas-based group claims.
It acknowledges new words once they have been used 25,000 times by media outlets, on social networking websites and in other sources.
The terms it is currently monitoring which could take English to the one million threshold include "defollow" and "defriend", words describing what users of websites like Twitter and Facebook to do contacts with whom they do not wish to stay in touch.
Another internet word "noob" – a derogatory name for someone new to a particular task or community – is also in the running, along with "greenwashing" (what companies do to appear environmentally friendly) and "chiconomics" (recession fashion).
Paul Payack, chief analyst at the Global Language Monitor, said: "Despite having a million words at our disposal it is unlikely that we will ever use more than just a tiny fraction of them.
"The average persons vocabulary is fewer than 14,000 words out of these million that are available. A person who is linguistically gifted would only use 70,000 words."
The organisation first predicted that the millionth English word was imminent in 2006, and has repeatedly pushed back the expected date. Other linguist have expressed scepticism about its methods, claiming that there is no agreement about how to classify a word.
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Will Halotard be the 1,000,001th word then?
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If it's "noob" I'm killing whomever MADE that a fucking word.
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If it's "noob" I'm killing whomever MADE that a fucking word. No you won't. You'll walk into his/her workplace...and then run away crying when s/he takes your gun away from you with no effort.
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock ![[Linked Image from i6.photobucket.com]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/JoeMama13/RedSoxBanner05.png)
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If it's "noob" I'm fake internet killing whomever MADE that a fucking word.
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he will also let him touch his stomach
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he will also let him touch his stomach 
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
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wait, aren't you supposed to compliment someone's abs instead of his stomach? You'd have to gut someone to touch his stomach.
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What pisses me off about the coverage of all these neologisms being added to the dictionary is the failure to point out all the wonderful words that are removed to make room for them.
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November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.
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Words removed by Harper Collins:
* Abstergent - Cleansing.
* Agrestic - Rural.
* Apodeictic - Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration.
* Caducity - Perishableness.
* Caliginosity - Dimness.
* Compossible - Possible in coexistence with something else.
* Embrangle - To confuse.
* Exuviate - To shed.
* Fatidical - Prophetic.
* Fubsy - Squat.
* Griseous - Somewhat grey.
* Malison - A curse.
* Mansuetude - Gentleness.
* Muliebrity - The condition of being a woman.
* Niddering - Cowardly.
* Nitid - Bright.
* Olid - Foul-smelling.
* Oppugnant - Combative.
* Periapt - An amulet.
* Recrement - Refuse.
* Roborant - Tending to fortify.
* Skirr - A whirring sound, as of the wings of birds in flight.
* Vaticinate - Prophesy.
* Vilipend - To treat with contempt.
Now, I do honestly admit to not using most of these with any regularity save for agrestic and embrangle, but I feel their removal from the dictionary will result in less people being able to read, enjoy, and understand early to middle English literature without destroying the flow of the original text and substituting less difficult words that, in essence, furthers the dumbing down of the general populace.
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They prefer "African American."
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
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wait, aren't you supposed to compliment someone's abs Only if they have abs like Jesus!
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* Griseous - Somewhat gay.
Joe is griseous
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Thats a bit unfair...
...he's totally gay!
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I guess you both would know, seeing as you've both been my catchers.
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
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I've been somewhat your catcher!
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Mansuetude is a pretty sweet word.
Sometimes I wish I didn't know now the things I didn't know then.
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Knutreturns said: Spoken like the true Greatest RDCW Champ!
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If it's "noob" I'm killing whomever MADE that a fucking word. No you won't. You'll walk into his/her workplace...and then run away crying when s/he takes your gun away from you with no effort. You. uh. are aware that it takes a bit of effort to take anything from me. Well. Not so much at the moment as one hand's a little fucked. And that they DIDN'T have control of my gun in the incident you're making allusion to.
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look buddy it's your made up story, dont let them dictate the story arcs to you.
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