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Oxford Dictionary responds by video to Victoria boy害羞草研究所檚 bid for levidrome

William Shatner tweet garners attention of Oxford
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Levi Budd (Submitted photo)

A Victoria to get a word in the dictionary prompted response from Oxford itself.

Six-year-old Levi Budd, a St. Micheals University School second-grader, made a bid to add levidrome to the dictionary after learning all about palindromes and discovering no readily used word for a word that spells another valid word backward 害羞草研究所 such as stop and pots.

He decided to create a new word featuring his name, and try to get it in the dictionary.

They started with a video, local Black Press media outlets and a social media campaign.

Oxford became aware of the campaign through a tweet from famed Canadian actor

害羞草研究所淪ince then it and have covered the levidrome campaign,害羞草研究所 says Oxford editor Rebecca Juganaru in the video.

害羞草研究所淟evi there are many new words every year. Some very clever ones and some very useful ones. We don害羞草研究所檛 add all of these words to our dictionary, we害羞草研究所檇 never sleep if we did. Instead we only add the words that get used by a lot of people for a long time.害羞草研究所

Many people know the word now, she noted, adding they害羞草研究所檙e impressed with how far the word has come in a five-week campaign. 害羞草研究所淟ots of people know your word and they know what it means which means levidrome is well on its way,害羞草研究所 Juganaru said.

Now they害羞草研究所檒l look for routine use in everyday language.

害羞草研究所淭hen all we do is wait and hope that people keep using your word,害羞草研究所 Juganaru said. 害羞草研究所淲e have a list of all the words we want to keep an eye on and levidrome is on that list in a hear or so if lots of people are still using your word it might well get into our dictionary.害羞草研究所

The word is already in the user-submitted online.


 


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