10-01-08 [ Betsy ]

Old news.

some of the best

double-tongued dictionary, grandiloquent dictionary, alan cooper's homophones, how to make up words, languagehat, language log, michael quinion, online etymology dictionary, word detective, word spy, wordorigins, wordsmith.org, mediatemple (ourhost), oracle of bacon, snopes, the straight dope.

if you know a word that should be in a dictionary but isn’t, submit it and we’ll add it to the pseudodictionary. if you know a real word and think it would fit in, you may submit it as well.

submitted words shouldn’t be overtly drug-related or sexual, shouldn’t describe genitals or bodily functions, and shouldn’t be racist or otherwise hateful. we want to keep the site lighthearted and fun for everyone, so words such as those won’t be added. you may submit as many words as you like, but make sure they meet our guidelines.

since this is a pseudo-dictionary and not a real dictionary, that gives us a lot of latitude. we’re the ones paying for the site, so that pretty much gives us carte blanche to make it whatever we want to and legitimately claim that we haven’t misled you.

our primary focus will remain made-up words, but we’ll also use the site to tell you what comes up that interests us and what we have on our minds. we hope to run the site in a way that should pleasing to any reasonable person, and possibly even to you.

we’ll always be with it enough to know . . . we’re not with it. appreciate us for what we are.

hd, marty, paul.