On Dec 11, 10:57 pm, suzee <suz...@imbris.com> wrote:
> Dragonlady wrote:
> > "Adam Corolla" <nos...@nospam03550265902.com> wrote in message
> >news:LPidnbPm1JaUbsPanZ2dnUVZ_uWlnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> >> Short list. Please add your own ideas to the list.
> >> 1. Saying "ginormous" (a combining of the words gigantic and enormous.)
> >> Just stop it, OK? There are a great number of ways to say "large," no new
> >> ones are needed, thanks anyway, don't let the door bang your bum on the
> >> way out.
>
> > It's pretty silly anyway, since gigantic and enormous mean the same thing -
> > and ginormous is obviously just a made up word that means the same thing
> > again.
>
> I like the word. So do people who've never heard it before...

Yea, I like the word ginormous too. Didn't the dictionary folks just
recently approve the word "woot"? Maybe we'll get ginormous some day
as well.

Haha.. that word sounds quite ridonculous.

In article
<cb852180-80f3-4dfa-afdb-ab25acc0e29d@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
ebrian <ebrian@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yea, I like the word ginormous too. Didn't the dictionary folks just
> recently approve the word "woot"? Maybe we'll get ginormous some day
> as well.

Oxford New American Dictionary:
ginormous
adjective informal humorous
extremely large; enormous : a ginormous five-volume treatment of Greek
and Arabic medicine.
ORIGIN blend of gigantic and enormous.

<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ginormous>
Webster's New Millennium� Dictionary of English
Main Entry:��ginormous
Part of Speech:��adj
Definition:��simply huge; extremely large
Etymology:��1948-53; giant + enormous
Usage:��ginormously, adv

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Scr�obh ebrian <ebrian@gmail.com>:
>On Dec 11, 10:57 pm, suzee <suz...@imbris.com> wrote:
>> Dragonlady wrote:
>> > "Adam Corolla" <nos...@nospam03550265902.com> wrote in message
>> >news:LPidnbPm1JaUbsPanZ2dnUVZ_uWlnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>> >> Short list. Please add your own ideas to the list.
>> >> 1. Saying "ginormous" (a combining of the words gigantic and enormous.)
>> >> Just stop it, OK? There are a great number of ways to say "large," no new
>> >> ones are needed, thanks anyway, don't let the door bang your bum on the
>> >> way out.
>>
>> > It's pretty silly anyway, since gigantic and enormous mean the same thing -
>> > and ginormous is obviously just a made up word that means the same thing
>> > again.
>>
>> I like the word. So do people who've never heard it before...
>
>Yea, I like the word ginormous too. Didn't the dictionary folks just
>recently approve the word "woot"?

Dictionaries don't approve anything. They're descriptive, not
prescriptive.

>Maybe we'll get ginormous some day
>as well.
>
>Haha.. that word sounds quite ridonculous.

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ebrian wrote:
> On Dec 11, 10:57 pm, suzee <suz...@imbris.com> wrote:
>> Dragonlady wrote:
>>> "Adam Corolla" <nos...@nospam03550265902.com> wrote in message
>>> news:LPidnbPm1JaUbsPanZ2dnUVZ_uWlnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>>>> Short list. Please add your own ideas to the list.
>>>> 1. Saying "ginormous" (a combining of the words gigantic and enormous.)
>>>> Just stop it, OK? There are a great number of ways to say "large," no new
>>>> ones are needed, thanks anyway, don't let the door bang your bum on the
>>>> way out.
>>> It's pretty silly anyway, since gigantic and enormous mean the same thing -
>>> and ginormous is obviously just a made up word that means the same thing
>>> again.
>> I like the word. So do people who've never heard it before...
>
> Yea, I like the word ginormous too. Didn't the dictionary folks just
> recently approve the word "woot"? Maybe we'll get ginormous some day
> as well.
>
> Haha.. that word sounds quite ridonculous.

I just saw another one... jahungous.

On Dec 19, 3:37 pm, Michelle Steiner <miche...@michelle.org> wrote:
> In article
> <cb852180-80f3-4dfa-afdb-ab25acc0e...@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
>
> ebrian <ebr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yea, I like the word ginormous too. Didn't the dictionary folks just
> > recently approve the word "woot"? Maybe we'll get ginormous some day
> > as well.
>
> Oxford New American Dictionary:
> ginormous
> adjective informal humorous
> extremely large; enormous : a ginormous five-volume treatment of Greek
> and Arabic medicine.
> ORIGIN blend of gigantic and enormous.
>
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ginormous>
> Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English
> Main Entry: ginormous
> Part of Speech: adj
> Definition: simply huge; extremely large
> Etymology: 1948-53; giant + enormous
> Usage: ginormously, adv
>
> --
> Support the troops: Bring them home ASAP.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ginormous

Looks like it's already in there.

In article <cq6jm35ci007jo2dbi6g165q9suahcp7pb@4ax.com>, F�ach@d.�ir
says...
> Scr�obh ebrian <ebrian@gmail.com>:
> >On Dec 11, 10:57 pm, suzee <suz...@imbris.com> wrote:
> >> Dragonlady wrote:
> >> > "Adam Corolla" <nos...@nospam03550265902.com> wrote in message
> >> >news:LPidnbPm1JaUbsPanZ2dnUVZ_uWlnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> >> >> Short list. Please add your own ideas to the list.
> >> >> 1. Saying "ginormous" (a combining of the words gigantic and enormous.)
> >> >> Just stop it, OK? There are a great number of ways to say "large," no new
> >> >> ones are needed, thanks anyway, don't let the door bang your bum on the
> >> >> way out.
> >>
> >> > It's pretty silly anyway, since gigantic and enormous mean the same thing -
> >> > and ginormous is obviously just a made up word that means the same thing
> >> > again.
> >>
> >> I like the word. So do people who've never heard it before...
> >
> >Yea, I like the word ginormous too. Didn't the dictionary folks just
> >recently approve the word "woot"?
>
> Dictionaries don't approve anything.

Sure they do - they approve what they put into the dictionary.

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