Information technology specialists have clever lingo referring to computer users who come to them all worked up about a problem, only to discover that it’s a matter of an error on the part of the user, not the computer. In the tech world, that’s...
Before the search engine Google, there was the word googol. As mathematician Edward Kasner recounts in his book Mathematics and the Imagination, he asked his 9-year-old nephew Milton to coin a word for a huge number, specifically 10 to the 100th...
needlex
n.—Gloss: A needle exchange program. «Liverpool did not have the world’s first needlex.» —“Needle Exchange in the USA” by Maias Metafilter Aug. 16, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
triple n.— «Who is Bill Clinton’s wife? What’s the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears’ mother’s name? The answers to these and other factual questions are now displayed above natural search results in Google and the information is...
squircle v.—Gloss: To make a square photograph of a round object. Note: There is a Flickr group of such photos. «This must be photographed quite a bit, but i do wonder if it has been squircled.» —by striatic Flickr (Seattle, Washington) Oct. 6...
A pair of business partners disagree whether to use one word, website, or or two words, Web site. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Website vs. Web Site” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hello, Martha. This is Bob from Heartland...