Top Tip! ‘Wiki’ : Now in Oxford Dictionary
21 March 2007
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The word ‘Wiki’ is now an official English Word . The word which was originally born in Pacific Island of Hawaii is finally going to be included in the Oxford English dictionary along with 287 others .
According to the chied editor of Oxford Dictionary
Words are included in the dictionary on the basis of the documentary evidence that we have collected about them. A while ago this evidence suggested that wiki was starting to make a name for itself
But ‘Wiki Wiki’ which means ‘quick’ in Hawaiian is going to have a diffrent meaning in the dictionary . It will be a type of Web page designed so that its contents can be edited by anyone who accesses it .
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I thought they would have added this word long back….anyhow its better late than never…
Technology is contributing a lot of words to dictionaries…Hmm…
Better they did it.They should take up wordpress also.There are lot of words which need to be add up.They might not have English meaning but very commonly used.
Oxford Dictionary claims that it has more than 300,000 words indexed in their book. But does anybody have concern about this lonely soul who is preparing for GRE and memorizing all those (junk) words?
* sigh *
At least we now know the folks at Oxford are not living in the middle ages anymore.
I wonder what meaning would they attach to the word itself. Did ‘wiki’pedia make it a factor for inclusion?
Lol Last time I heard some word being added to the dictionary from the Technology world
was Google
Good to see Wiki marks up to the chart too
Yeah , wikipedia was the main reason for its inclusion
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That is funny…. I turn to Wiki long before I turn to Oxford??? Hmm… oh well!
en.wikipedia.org is awesome. I have found and learned so much from that site.
I’m perplexed at Kathy being a target when on the list of top people to go after, I doubt she’d be in the first 50 pages (not discrediting her work, she’s brilliant, and gentle, but not the first I’d think would have to deal with this
Peace people
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[...] Madhur Kapoor the term Wiki is now in the Oxford dictionary [...]
[...] first understand what a Wiki actually is and what is it use. Referring to Madhur’s great post on Wiki And Its Induction In The Oxford Dictionary we get an insight of what a Wiki actually stands [...]
[...] understand what a Wiki actually is and what is it use. Referring to Madhur’s great post on Wiki And Its Induction In The Oxford Dictionary we get an insight of what a Wiki actually stands [...]
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