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Wordanista
contrawise
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2008/01/16 - 5:43am
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I found the highly relevant word "wordanista" as today's entry for Worthless Word for the Day. According to WWftD, it applies to "someone who tells others what is or is not a word, based on what they have read in books."

I've never read that word anywhere before. Is it real?

Grant Barrett
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2008/01/16 - 6:33am
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It is now. Wordanista was coined on the "Colbert Report" in the fall of 2005. Ben Zimmer has written about it at Language Log.

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2008/02/03 - 8:07am
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Hmmm ...
I see I should've put a winking smiley at the end of my initial post.

Thanks for the link to Benjamin Zimmer's log! Fun reading.

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