Meme

[jack]

Meme: What are the most recent five words in your custom dictionary? Pick a line of five from the middle (fudge if you want to) -- can you remember when you used them?

Last five:

squee
online
Cracus
Hulme
snarky

Middle five:

Orcs -- Can I just say "anything by Tolkien is ok?"
Hagrid -- For that matter, how much national effort must have been wasted adding Harry Potter names to dictionaries? Would we save much energy by getting someone to issue more comprehensive dictionaries? :)
leet -- Irony
Euthyphro -- Conveniently, I can google where I used this: hpost
exes -- OK, a bit non-standard
snork -- :)
Slytherin's -- OK, maybe there's a good reason not to automatically add plurals and possessives and inflected forms to the dictionary when you add a word. But you could add them to the list of suggestions if you had time to code it...

Comments

[simont]

in your custom dictionary

I presume the implicit context here is "in your spellchecker"?

If so, I'm intrigued by the assumption that spellcheckers are so much a part of everyone's life that they needn't be mentioned explicitly in a post like this; I've never found a need to use one, and while I wouldn't be too surprised to find myself in a minority on this I'd be startled to find I was in a particularly small minority.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

My current dictionaries are a Langenscheidt French-English and my beloved but tatty old Smith's Smaller. Both are rather unaccustomed.

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

I love this meme! :)

I worry about adding too much to the dictionary though, in case I start adding things that could easily be typoed for other (perhaps more frequently used) things.

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Slytherin's -- OK, maybe there's a good reason not to automatically add plurals and possessives and inflected forms to the dictionary when you add a word. But you could add them to the list of suggestions if you had time to code it...

Mulberry used to give you a list of derivatives that might work from that word and ask you to add them. The problem is that the computer doesn't know whether the word you've just added is a noun (and so need, plural and genitive forms) or a verb (so third person and past forms) or an adjective (so adverb form) (or any other possibilities I've forgotten).

[robhu.livejournal.com]

I'm interested as to how my surname got in there :P