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Big words on a hot evening
Jul. 11th, 2007 09:35 pmI've started receiving junk mail addressed to Issa Hope. It's either an amusing typo that has made itself onto the source list for the junk mailers, or my sister has started signing me up for things. Though she would never dare do so without the correct punctuation; it should be 'Issa. Note the very important apostrophe.
Microsoft Word offers generous, ignoramus, and gunrooms* as spelling alternatives to ginormous. Firefox offers enormous, which I take as proof that Mozilla is smarter than Microsoft.
Word and Firefox haven't been updated to reflect the new Merriam-Webster-created reality. My Oxford Dictionary of Current English (1998 edition) already contained ginormous, defined as "adj. slang enormous. [from GIANT, ENORMOUS]".
Enormous does its job just fine for me. I also like massive for its sense of weight as well as size. I don't need ginormous.
I do need a word for the feeling of being nostalgic for something that never was.
*Firefox's dictionary does not recognize the last; it offers gun rooms.
Microsoft Word offers generous, ignoramus, and gunrooms* as spelling alternatives to ginormous. Firefox offers enormous, which I take as proof that Mozilla is smarter than Microsoft.
Word and Firefox haven't been updated to reflect the new Merriam-Webster-created reality. My Oxford Dictionary of Current English (1998 edition) already contained ginormous, defined as "adj. slang enormous. [from GIANT, ENORMOUS]".
Enormous does its job just fine for me. I also like massive for its sense of weight as well as size. I don't need ginormous.
I do need a word for the feeling of being nostalgic for something that never was.
*Firefox's dictionary does not recognize the last; it offers gun rooms.
