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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-23 at 22:02

I was going to share this @grammargirl podcast anyway because of the brilliant @emckean and the wonderful @wordnik but:

"ERIN: We had a couple of people who set up some little automated scripts that looked at Twitter, and anytime someone said "that's not a word" on Twitter, it added it to a list, and these lists got huge. And the lists were really entertaining, but technically they were difficult for us to maintain and load."

erm, sorry! 😅

https://wordnik.com/lists/twitter-isnots

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Written by Hugo van Kemenade on 2024-12-23 at 22:07

I also made a ridiculous 4,000-page dictionary of the not-a-words for #NaNoGenMo complete with definitions sourced from @wordnik and with the original citations :)

https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/90

HTML: https://hugovk.github.io/lexiconstruct/a-dictionary-of-not-a-words.html

PDF: https://hugovk.github.io/lexiconstruct/a-dictionary-of-not-a-words.pdf

But go and check out https://wordnik.com/ and adopt your own word!

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Written by Erin McKean on 2024-12-23 at 22:11

@hugovk @grammargirl @wordnik I have a plan to get these back! 😂

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