Muckraker  Posts: 268 Joined: 11 Aug 2008     | |
Artist  Posts: 191 Joined: 24 Jun 2008     | Aww I love the term 'huggles' - it makes life better! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4433 Joined: 14 Jan 2008     |
I always liked 'Huggies' better. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1084 Joined: 3 Apr 2008    |
There's only one z in scrabble... |
Paperboy Posts: 22 Joined: 17 Jul 2008  | So I'm not the only one who watched The Critic? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3085 Joined: 13 Jul 2008    | "Meh" enters Collins English Dictionary? Meh. |
Muckraker Posts: 268 Joined: 11 Aug 2008 |
You're thinking of Quzybuk :) |
On the Record  Posts: 6071 Joined: 25 Jan 2008   | I'm still holding out for "Smex", "Frak", and "Shitpickle". |
On the Record  Posts: 5965 Joined: 7 Feb 2008    | He he he, you said smex. That said, meh is a rockin word, good for you "meh". |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2633 Joined: 30 Sep 2008   | I'm fairly sure meh predates the simpsons... It may have gained prominence afterwords but still. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 10 Joined: 3 Sep 2008   | It does indeed. I'm not even from an English speaking country and I used "meh" way back in childhood (with the same meaning that is). |
Senior Editor  Posts: 2266 Joined: 9 Jan 2007   | But is "feh" in the dictionary? I use that far more than "meh." (Which is not to be confused with "mah", which indicates ownership.) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 932 Joined: 22 Jul 2008    | In the Netherlands we have got mwah, which is basically the same. I'm not sure if it is included in dictionaries though. |
Muckraker  Posts: 279 Joined: 4 Sep 2008   | I always thought "mwah" was the start of an evil laugh mwahahahaha, but meh, whatever. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4051 Joined: 23 Apr 2008   | Hoorah! Free mehs for all! ;) Actually, I like this. Tis good to document new words. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3633 Joined: 3 Apr 2008    | Meh.... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1050 Joined: 3 Dec 2007   | On behalf of "meh", I'd like to thank all the people who made this possible, and allowed "meh" to become a prominent part of daily conversation. CNN, Fox News, The Simpsons, televangelists around the world, boring English teachers, George Lucas, Paris Hilton, Konami, audiophiles, raccoon-hunting enthusiasts... |
Muckraker  Posts: 338 Joined: 12 Oct 2007  | Oh I'm so looking forward to using this in an upcoming essay. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 89 Joined: 20 Nov 2008  |
My English teacher will shit bricks. But in all seriousness, it worries me how the standard of languages is slowly declining into a state of worserness and worserness....... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1538 Joined: 6 Apr 2008    |
New words is bad? That's unpossible! |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 406 Joined: 31 Jan 2008  |
I thought it was the sound an 'air kiss' made. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 597 Joined: 17 Apr 2008 | Well google chrome still doesnt recognise "meh" as a word, bastards. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 858 Joined: 2 Apr 2008   | Simpsons can't claim "Meh", that's for damn sure. 'Meh' is rather like... well... like hic. "Hic" is the sound you make when you hiccup. Likewise, "meh" is any vaguely dismissive vocalisation above a grunt. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 857 Joined: 4 Jun 2008   | Well, it is perfectly cromulent word.
That's definitely it's meaning in English. EDIT: Like, when there's some evilness, but not enough for a "MWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!" |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2324 Joined: 14 Jan 2008  |
Add Craptoast and Christ-on-a-Crutch to that list |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1810 Joined: 8 Apr 2008    | Meh entering the dictionary is awesome. However, the day kthxbai is entered into the dictionary is the day I start seriously worrying about the future of the English language |
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"Meh" Enters Collins English Dictionary
Another perfectly cromulent word embiggens the English language.
It started with "D'oh" and now Matt Groening and co. have managed to land yet another one of their made-up words into the English dictionary. In an open call for new words for the 30th anniversary edition of Collins English Dictionary, the apathetic expression "meh" defeated the likes of "jargonaut" and "huggles" to earn a place in the book.
Collins asked that people submit words they use in conversations but are not yet in the dictionary. The word "meh," which was initially featured in a 2001 episode of The Simpsons, rose to prominence early in the internet age as the simplest way to convey indifference or boredom where it is, at times, difficult to judge the emotion of a fellow online user.
"Internet and email are playing a big part in formalising the spellings of vocal interjections like these," explains Cormac McKeown, Collins Dictionaries head of content. "Other examples would be hmm and heh, which are both now ubiquitous online and in emails. People are increasingly writing in a register somewhere in between spoken and written English."
Is it only a matter of time before the nefarious and universally appalling "txt speak" makes its way into our lexicon? Should that day come, at the very least, there will be nothing stopping "Kwyjibo" from becoming a legitimate Scrabble word.
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