Wanted: kitchen table lingo
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary,
linguistic research organisation the English Project is calling for
contributions to its Kitchen Table Lingo project in a bid to create the
first inventory of words and phrases that fail to make it into the
dictionary.
The £25million project seeks to record customised terms that we regularly use within the confines of our homes, workplaces and clubs, but that never make it into the national lexicon.
According to the English Project chairman Professor Christopher Mulvey, we regularly adapt, merge and make new words to suit our need to improve or customise communication.
‘The English language is the most dynamic and democratic of cultural organisms,’ he said. ‘It is constantly creating new words in the street, the workplace and around the kitchen table.
And the English Project would like to record them.’
September 08
The £25million project seeks to record customised terms that we regularly use within the confines of our homes, workplaces and clubs, but that never make it into the national lexicon.
According to the English Project chairman Professor Christopher Mulvey, we regularly adapt, merge and make new words to suit our need to improve or customise communication.
‘The English language is the most dynamic and democratic of cultural organisms,’ he said. ‘It is constantly creating new words in the street, the workplace and around the kitchen table.
And the English Project would like to record them.’
September 08
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