Tuesday, July 03, 2007

What Do These Words Have in Common?

  • Brooklynite
  • sleeper cell
  • glitch
  • high-maintenance
  • low-maintenance
  • prime directive
  • Islamofascism
  • scratch and sniff
  • focus group
  • prissy
  • primal scream
  • that’s not my problem
  • comeback kid
  • Hollywood ending

Via: The Oxford English Dictionary Adds 2,700 Entries

at 11:55 AM
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1 comments:

  1. There's a great programme on BBC TV every week called "Balderdash and Piffle" which investigates unusual words that have been entered into the OED.

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