The Oxford English Dictionary has been around for 135 age as of February 1 , 2019 , and the list of terms it recognizes keeps expanding . OED editors are always searching for new words likebinge - watch , bromance , andmochaccinoto add to the book as they solidify their point in the lexicon . For a new project , they ’re calling on their reader to help , The Guardianreports .
If your profession uses slang price that might be indecipherable to the cosmopolitan public , OED require to discover about them . Maybe you ’re an anaesthetist who uses theWoolworth ’s Testto find out if a patient can undergo anesthesia ( if the affected role seems well enough to go shopping at the retail storage , they should be fine ) , or a truck driver driver who cruises at adouble nickel(55 mph ) . The dictionary is take any suggestions — no matter how dark .
OED writes on its internet site that while some professional jargon is meant to keep client in the dark , others can direct to communicating trouble : " You ’d probably rather not hear your Dr. describe someone as agomer[get out of my emergency elbow room ] ( that is , a hard or disagreeable patient role ) , and your veterinary friend may shy aside from explainingDSTO(our generator tell us that it intend ' dog smarter than proprietor ' ) . However , at other times , not empathise the words used in a patronage just leads to confusion . Not everyone knows , for example , thatsweating the pipesis plumbing slang for solder two pipes together . "
The Oxford English Dictionary is calling on physician , journalists , teachers , fire-eater , and everyone else to share their secret terminology . Some professional are sharing their contributions on Twitter : suggestion so far includebanana(to walk in a curve ball , not a straight line , on stage),weed(to remove damaged or unpopular book from a library ’s inventory ) , andcaped(railway terminus for a canceled train ) .
To present your term straight to OED , you could fill out the formhere .
[ h / tThe Guardian ]
