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(183 views)full moon......victory for jaffa cakes!!!
been reading news stories this morning and this one is worth sharing (see Sambucca, they made it!):
A defining dictionary moment for the Jaffa cake
Martin Wainwright
Thursday September 20, 2007
The Guardian Wags, yummy mummies and a host of other new coinings have made it to the latest five-yearly revision of the Oxford English Dictionary, published today - along with one humble term which has waited more than half a century for inclusion.
After vigorous arguments at the Oxford University Press, staff insisted that "Jaffa cake" should join more obscure words, ranging from "heaviosity" to "garburator", in the standard archive of English usage. The Jaffa, defined in its debut entry as "a sponge biscuit with an orange-flavoured jelly filling and chocolate topping", has been monitored by lexicographers for the last five years on the Oxford English Corpus, an online mountain of more than 2 billion different words. Its original coining by McVitie's bakery 60 years ago has diversified into use as a nickname, hundreds of appearances in novels and a small sub-culture in bondage sex. "We decided in the end that the Jaffa cake is iconic in its way," said Angus Stevenson, editor of the two-volume book.The other main change to the format of the 600,000 terms, all of which automatically enter the full Oxford English Dictionary, which has more than three times as many, is a mass removal of hyphens. More than 16,000 have been taken out in cases such as "fig-leaf" and "leap-frog", after monitoring showed that "our world of fast keying and quick edits onscreen has largely given up searching for the hyphen".
New terms Addy An email address Cattle class Economy seats on aircraft Garburator Kitchen waste disposal unit Get your ya-yas out Enjoy yourself uninhibitedly Heaviosity Quality of being serious, intense, or "heavy", esp. in popular music Manbag Man's handbag or shoulderbag Semifreddo Italian dessert containing cream and eggs Wairua Spirit or soul in Maori
Comments
Ravenhair1 said:Hail to the Jaffa!
20 September 2007 9:51am
zeus said:look out Countdown here I come :-)
20 September 2007 10:20am
Jok said:I also love Jaffa Cakes and am glad they have the recognition they deserve!
20 September 2007 11:01am
suecblue said:I'm not worthy hehe ... love the jaffa, I eat the sponge, suck off the choc and 'num num num' on the orange jelly x
20 September 2007 1:44pm
sambucca1 said:LONG LIVE THE JAFFA CAKE!!!! Thank you for that Taz, made me roar with laughter! xxx
20 September 2007 4:02pm
felipe_3.0 said:I'm feeling smarter already...LOL
21 September 2007 2:26am
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