Thursday, November 23, 2006

Shurtugal-Dragon Riders

Spelling:Shurtugal

Meaning:Dragon rider

Etymology:Fictional creation

Author: Christopher Paolini

Usage:Not known(let us know if you find out)

Date of creation:Not known(let us know if you find out)

Opposition:None till date

History:The word is used in Christopher paolini's Inheritance triology to describe "Dragon Riders who are humans or Elves who help maintain peace with the help of their dragons". These dragons and their riders share a mutual bond which is created when a dragon rider touches the dragon egg and the egg hatches.

Language of origin:(The Ancient Language-fictional)

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Moblization-Mobilization

Spelling:Moblization

Meaning:Mobilization (see what we think about 'typos')

Etymology:typo(Moblization)

Author:Typos dont have authors

Usage:The moblization of the army can take a few days.

Date of creation:Typos are not created

Opposition:None to date

History:Gave 14,100 google hits as on November 22nd 2006. (Not a criteria)This word was deleted from the wikitionary in august 2006 (original contributor not known), but we thought it was more than a typo as it reflects the fact that many people pronounce "mobilization" as "moblization", it seems to be of importance to note that leaving out vowels like 'i' and 'e' is rather common in anglised french words.Not that spelling mistakes should be supported, but who cares as long as you get the meaning. Eventually this word may replace the other.


Language of origin:French

Intresting-Interesting

Spelling:Intresting

Meaning:Interesting (see what we think about 'typos')

Etymology:typo(Interesting)

Author:Typos dont have authors

Usage:Fairy tales are very intresting to read.

Date of creation:Typos are not created

Opposition:None to date

History:Gave 3,180,000 google hits as on November 22nd 2006. (Not a criteria) but we thought it was more than a typo as it reflects the fact that many people pronounce "Interesting" as "Intresting", it seems to be of importance to note that leaving out vowels like 'i' and 'e' is rather common in English.Not that spelling mistakes should be supported, but who cares as long as you get the meaning. Eventually this word may replace the other.

Language of origin:English

Monday, November 20, 2006

Mysoored-Marooned

This word is yet to be claimed by its author????

If you are the author, you can claim it by commenting below filling out all these details

Spelling: mysoored (different from Mysored)

Meaning: Marooned

Author: Kalyan

Usage: Bored and Mysoored

Date of creation: 27th october 2004

Opposition: None till date

History: It was used by the creator in a blog post describing his circumstances. You can take a look at it http://kaldesac.blogspot.com/2004/10/bored-and-mysoored.html

Language of origin:English

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Folkstionary-the dictionary for the people, by the people, from the people

If you think a word should have a particular spelling and meaning, you ahould have the freedom of telling that. Nobody should be able to prevent you from doing that. Here is an attempt to collect all such words, which will eventually become words by themselves.

This is going to be the general format for describing a new word in the Folkstionary

Spelling:Folkstionary/folktionary

Meaning:A dictionary of words in use by folks(people)

Etymology:Folks +Dictionary

Author:Ajit Gupta

Usage:Folkstionary is the first word in the folkstionary.

Date of creation:19th Novmber 2006

Opposition:None till date

History:Was created in the spur of the moment as fun time pass event.

Language of Origin:English