‘Wiki’ : Now in Oxford Dictionary
By Madhur Kapoor on Mar 21, 2007 in Tech
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 .
I thought they would have added this word long back….anyhow its better late than never…
Mr.Byte | Mar 21, 2007 | Reply
Technology is contributing a lot of words to dictionaries…Hmm…
Shankar Ganesh | Mar 21, 2007 | Reply
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.
Ashish Mohta | Mar 21, 2007 | Reply
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 *
Somu | Mar 21, 2007 | Reply
At least we now know the folks at Oxford are not living in the middle ages anymore.
jhay | Mar 21, 2007 | Reply
I wonder what meaning would they attach to the word itself. Did ‘wiki’pedia make it a factor for inclusion?
lyndonmaxewell | Mar 22, 2007 | Reply
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
Dj Flush | Mar 23, 2007 | Reply
Yeah , wikipedia was the main reason for its inclusion
Madhur Kapoor | Mar 23, 2007 | Reply
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.
Garry C. | Mar 30, 2007 | Reply
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
发电机 | Apr 3, 2007 | Reply
Peace people
We love you
HelloWorld | Apr 26, 2007 | Reply