Adopt a word!
Each year hundreds of words are dropped from the English language due to lack of use.
Do your part to save some of these words by adopting one!
Thanks Hodgy for pointing this out to me!
Author: HotForWords
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I’ve adopted three words! I hope I remember to say them sometimes and also what they mean.
starrify ^.^ i think i found t he best
I’ve officially adopted the word “icasm” Like in the presidents speech is so full of icasms even he can’t understand it.and i didn’t just adopt it because it sounds like orgasm nice thought though.
I tried to visit the site but my OS is too old (10.3.9) to get the newest Flash/Shockwave plug-in.
Bah…
I would officially like to adopt the word “cornhole”. It doesn’t get nearly enough play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole_(game)
make sure you include the ‘_(game)’ in the link.
[digimon]
If a word is dropped from the English language can I still use it in Scrabble? If not I want to adopt all endangered words that fall into the parameters of legal Scrabble usage.
Where to start?
Where to start?
I just recently came up with my own phrase for no reason at all:
MONKEY BALLS!
(Which is another way of saying “DAMN IT!”)
You can’t preserve the term “ten-cent store” in this country! In order for that to happen, we’d have to redefine the value of all U.S. currency, starting at a certain time, which would lead to much confusion and, possibly, chaos (or suffer through prolonged deflation). More broadly, though, are these words even worth preserving? The English language is difficult enough to learn as it is and the human brain has only so much capacity.
The words are/aren’t worth preserving if you choose to/not-to use them; that’s the thing about English (truly all languages in which Lady Orlova has a Ph.D. of Philology; but lowly me only has a working knowledge of the wun
): its machine runs because you USE it … maybe there’s batteries, maybe there’s some fuel-source, maybe a hamster-wheel; Lady Orlova knows all that—we mortals merely have faith that our babbling starts to make sense 
I hope there are no Eaves Droppers near by.
I adopted modernicide and retirant , as in :
I hope I won’t be a victim of modernicide (killing of modern people) when i become a retirant (retiree) at the age of 30
I just adopted ISANGELOUS- Equivalent to angels. I hereby swear to use this word as often as possible. Marina, you are isangelous.
Cool, runawayscott! I did, too, last night. Marina’s tug on our heartstrings, you suppose?
What word did you pick? Not the same one I hope.
Yeah. It’s o.k. That’s what I meant about Marina’s effect on us.
If you’re talking about angels, maybe Marina is tugging your harpstrings.
Aarrgh! That was so bad it was good.
Where do your adopted words rank here?
My word is not in the archive.
Resarciate is not on there, either.
Does ‘resarciate’ mean ‘to come back to a sarcastic remark with an even more sarcastic reply?’
Actually, it means to make amends, so, if I end up pissing off people, I guess I am deresarciating.
This site was a blast to view.I enjoyd it.
In order to eschew obfuscation, one may conciliate his concupiscence with a sojourn to the Phronistery.
Anybody else priced the t-shirts. $25.00 plus $5.00 s/h.
$30.00 for one t-shirt. I think that’s a little pricey.
I adopted [resarciate]
I adopted a few words
I would but it wont load!
Thats a great website, props to hodgy on the cool find
I have picked a few words to adopt so far, these two I liked the sounds of
1) hirquitalliency (noun – strength of voice)
2) autexousious (adjective – exerting free will)
All I will say about the word ‘Surgation’ is look it up
I also came across the word ‘cacozealous’ meaning to imitate badly. It has the same ‘caco’ part from the recent ‘cacology’ (bad speak) lesson
‘Up’ being the salient point.
Here’s a word for one of our Canadian friends to save – Lignicide, as in I’m a lignicide and I’m OK.
I have adopted ‘Airgonaut’ because I are one.
This site may be of interest if you like unusual words.
Being the squiriferous man I am, I decide to join. It feels good to know I’ve prolonged the life of a word…
it is with great lubency that i take part in this…
although i do believe in evolution…of all types…
Must diffibulate my pants time for bed.
Oh, it’s a full moon, that explains a lot.
I adopted “coquinate”, it sounds very playful and sexy. It means to behave as a cook ( in a kitchen)
That was neat!
I took “isangelous” in honor of Marina.
Perspicuously inusitate and unparagoned.
The cark would be cruciable though the croze seems to be crescive.
I’m not responsible enough to adopt anything and my apartment is too small-sorry.
what is the source of the word bukkake?
I will adopt the word ‘ incrdedulous’ from charles dickens a tale of two cities.
“Save the words” may be off the track in trying to prolong the use of obscure polysyllabic terms that may be reaching the end of their natural life span.
We might instead try to save some very useful little words falling into disuse, e.g. “whither” and “whence,” “thou” and “thee”. The charming and succinct “Whither goest thou?” has become the clunky “Where are you going to?” which, to be grammatically correct, should be “To where are you going?” except no one says it that way.
Later, going out to get the edge off.
Be careful not to cut through the cord of the ‘edge trimmer.
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all year (2009), except for the Guess the Word Game Dance, that is
Oh My God, the Words are Talking!
I chose Venustation
Pick me!!! Dem words talk too much…how you doing thought onfire…Quote
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” – Salvador Dali 1904-1989
“When falling into Madness, Dive.”
Doing well here, yourself?
I think we definitely need to save snollygoster. There are hundreds of them in D.C. and elsewhere for that matter. It sounds like it came straight out of Dr. Seuss.
Very cool and interesting way of creating a “webwordsite”.
Speaking of Cod pieces, what is the name for the person, in like a Shakespeare play who would be off to the side of the stage and interact or narrate to the audience.
He would fill you in on the details.
{ ..may very well have to wait until Bob wakes up }
Marina you know this, Yes?
Waddayamean, wait till I wake up? I’ve been up for hours. {Not bragging}
The answer to your question is [Chorus] as in the opening scene of Henry V.
Do like the graphics in the link
Do to under use LOVE is no longer a word.
Sadly, that often seems true, doesn’t it, Che…
Why drop the words, words come and go or change meanings as time goes on.
Who thinks they have authority over the English language.
Bring me their heads, the cod piece may come back into fashion.
I haven’t heard of a Cod Piece in a long time.
Somewhat extradited
Oh, so that’s a cod piece. I wonder if the word for tight leather pants with gap openings that expose the buttocks region has been taken yet. I better check my 12th edition leatherman’s bible and see if I can find that under “kink wear”.
AssChaps comes to mind
Che answered that just a little too quick
He must be Codsackyan the Barbarian.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/02/06/adopt-a-word/#comment-109097
Take off the soiled noun, then wipe the shitty verbage then powder area then replace with a clean noun.
Gloves always worked for me if you not allergic to latex, plus a squeegee if it’s smeared to far to wipe in one stroke.
thats funny Capman911…got me thinking of the nuns I had in grade school, we talked with dirty nouns and barnyard verbage…smartasses we were…physical work (I’ll grunt and you lift)…bees a good and sleep tight
boy oh boy…I got caught
Anybody order a t-shirt? Fun with words.
I haven’t yet, but I think I will. I like t-shirts with different things on them. That’s about all I live in is t-shirts.
aporrhoea i hope works
I just adopted a word. It fits me just fine.
It means retiree.
http://i42.tinypic.com/x43rwn.jpg
Please don’t adopt magistricide. As it means the killing of a teacher or a master.
I looked at about a dozen of those obscure words and couldn’t bring myself to adopt one. No, I won’t be using those “fifty-cent words.” Even worse, I wouldn’t ask for any of them as a word request!
I’ll take relish, though I’m only 165lb
hmmmmm……….nimble
I, for one, like “Nifty”