Payack's 1,000,000th English word claim does show "Ignorance of Linguistics".
I have it on good authority (T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics) that there are 80 billion words that aren't listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. To be fair, he doesn't say they're all English words, but the examples he gives appear to be. He seems like a trustworthy guy, so I haven't checked whether the his claims are true.
MKR said,
January 4, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
Colloquialate?
MKR said,
January 4, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
Oh wow, it's already a word. I feel awfully silly now.
:(
Aaron Davies said,
January 5, 2009 @ 8:53 am
shirley that should be "connexion" in that usage…
Sili said,
January 5, 2009 @ 10:46 am
I thought "connexion" was peculiar to Riemannian geometry.
It's a snowly day here.
John Cowan said,
January 5, 2009 @ 8:16 pm
"Connexion" is the official OED spelling, which all OED entries and ISO standards (but hardly anyone else, these days) must use.
Aaron Davies said,
January 6, 2009 @ 7:47 am
my point, in case someone's missed it (i can't really tell) is that, at least IME, "in this connection"/"in which connection" is a british usage.
Megan said,
January 8, 2009 @ 10:36 am
Payack's 1,000,000th English word claim does show "Ignorance of Linguistics".
I have it on good authority (T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics) that there are 80 billion words that aren't listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. To be fair, he doesn't say they're all English words, but the examples he gives appear to be. He seems like a trustworthy guy, so I haven't checked whether the his claims are true.
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001380.html
Note for the humour impaired: this comment isn't serious. :)