A New Word

**RetroRuss** · November 15th, 2005, 02:54 PM

I was talking to someone yesterday about an individual in business....they asked me to describe them...the word 'cowellesque' immediately came to mind to describe them - someone who speaks candidly to another individual about their performance, style or general persona, with no thought whatsoever towards that person's personal feelings.

So I sent an email to the Oxford English Dictionary seeing if they would publish my new word!! Amazingly they replied with the following!

Dear Mr Lamp,

Thank you very much for your e-mail to the Oxford English Dictionary.

It may interest you to know that before a word is even considered for inclusion in the OED, we have to have at least 5 published instances of it, from a variety of sources. These can vary from novels to newspaper articles to radio scripts and so on. It is also
essential that the word demonstrates a reasonable longevity (5 years as an absolute minimum).

I have had a quick check on our in-house databases and we have not yet collected any examples of 'Cowellesque', although I did find a few examples on an external database of newspapers to which we subscribe.

I have passed this on for some further research. Thank you once again for writing.

Yours sincerely,

Fiona McPherson
Senior Editor OED.

So I am now going to write some radio scripts, articles for newspapers a novel and hope that Mr. Cowell doesn't become a big softy and stop hurting peoples feelings! 8) :lol:

**DISCODISK** · November 15th, 2005, 04:09 PM

try again with twatesque itll go in the book for sure

**Ivana Tinkle** · November 15th, 2005, 04:25 PM

Errrr... Anyone for "Quinnyesque" ?

Only joking Mr. Q.

**SandraDee** · November 16th, 2005, 06:11 PM

Originally Written by Ivana Tinkle

Errrr... Anyone for "Quinnyesque" ?

DD already suggested that.

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**DISCODISK** · November 16th, 2005, 07:18 PM

Originally Written by SandraDee

Originally Written by Ivana Tinkle

Errrr... Anyone for "Quinnyesque" ?

DD already suggested that.

:lol:

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**QUINNY** · November 16th, 2005, 08:04 PM

Originally Written by DISCODISK

Originally Written by SandraDee

Originally Written by Ivana Tinkle

Errrr... Anyone for "Quinnyesque" ?

DD already suggested that.

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Quinnyesque: adj; suave, sophisticated, polished, poised, polite, well rounded, jolly nice chap (but only when there's an abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy or z in the month). :lol: :lol: :lol: