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Our little garden is popping with colorful flowers. The vegetable garden is in fall mode with cucumber and tomato production slowed to a crawl. Are you planting bulbs this season? Gathering seeds? Planting a fall veggie bed? Leave a note and share your garden with us.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

New Words in the Dictionary 2007

Along with crunk (music), DVR (digital recorder), ginormous (really big) and nocebo (a sugar pill that actually causes a negative reaction in a patient), a few of the new words to be added to the dictionary later this year are terms familiar to garden geeks and foodies.

From their site http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/newwords07.htm
"Here's a sample of the nearly 100 new words and senses now deemed ginormous enough to be included in the 2007 copyright version of the best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition—available this fall in bookstores everywhere. How many of these words are already a part of your vocabulary? "

hardscape
Main Entry: hard·scape

Pronunciation: \ˈhärd-ˌskāp\
Function: noun
Date: 1984
: structures (as fountains, benches, or gazebos) that are incorporated into a landscape



microgreen
Main Entry: mi·cro·green

Pronunciation: \ˈmī-krō-ˌgrēn\
Function: noun
Date: 1998
: a shoot of a standard salad plant (as celery or arugula)



viewshed
Main Entry: view·shed

Pronunciation: \ˈvyü-ˌshed\
Function: noun
Etymology: view + -shed (as in watershed)
Date: 1981
: the natural environment that is visible from one or more viewing points


I thought hardscape and microgreen were already officially considered words. Viewshed is a new one for me.

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