Word Spy: neologisms

Did you go through an epiphanic moment and came up with a new word or term, the next wannabe buzzword? You might take a look at Word Spy, a site (actually, it’s a blog) dedicated to recently coined words (or existing words with a revamped meaning) and double check if someone else had the same inspiring moment…

As usual, my free consultancy/advice (yeah, if I had just charged for all the suggestions I have provided so far I’d be rich right now…or, wait, isn’t that the job of CTOs, CEOs, CVOs, you name it…):

• No user interaction: there’s no rating, no commenting, no user-generated content, no folksonomy.
• Multimedia content: audio/video/pics/slides/etc for pronunciation and/or usage.
• More like a social network / social database in which people can register and coin new words.

There are also sites such as Urban Dictionary, but this one is solely devoted to colloquial and more precisely to what I call SexLANG register (it’ll end up being something similar to Sex Lexis), so please use with caution (I highly recommend that you read this post by Nik Peachey: What can students learn from the Urban Dictionary?).

(Wordspy: via a Twitter contact, now that I have started to use Microplaza, I’ll never ever forget the source again).

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