A million before 5
2010, January 7
Wyndham Grand Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The words paraded on the dialectical catwalk and only one would come out successful and crowned.
Fat-finger came out as a verb: to mistype, as by accidentally striking more than one key on a keyboard/pad. Nom, posing as an onomatopoeia, dressed up as a bacon wrapped scallop, and immediately, all the observers gawked and began their Freudian drool and all together, like yellow possessed minions, they chanted like monks: “NomNomNomNomNomNomNomNomNom.” Food coma brought them to food heaven.
Nom:
an onomatopoeic adjective,
essentially an onomatopoeia for the chewing noise made by the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. It is a phrase used to indicate hunger, chewing, or pleasure from eating food. The root sound is based on Cookie Monster’s happy eating sounds.
sauce: (Most creative word)
Intensive suffix
as in awesome-sauce ‘great’ and lame-sauce ‘stupid’
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belieber A fan of pop singer Justin Bieber (Bieber + believer) 2010 fan word
Fauxhemian was booed off the stage as “least likely to succeed”, winner of a prior gawker poll to replace the term “hipster”.
The winner of the contest as judged by the American Dialect Society in the 21st annual word of the year vote was “App” (noun, an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone or tablet operating system). The judges were linguists, lexicographer, etymologist, historian, writers, professors, etc.
Tweet, the word of the year for 2009, came on stage and handed the crown over to App. 2008, 2007, 2006 words of the year stood respectively at the side in order: Bailout, Subprime, and to be plutoed.
2023, December 10
National App Day
National App Day was launched in 2017 by Platinum Edge Media, a mobile solutions platform designed to help businesses design and launch mobile apps and marketing campaigns. The main goal of this Remembrance Day is to celebrate the amazing, ingenuous people who develop mobile apps that, if used in a balanced and tactical manner can improve almost any aspect of our everyday lives. This day celebrates the influence that software applications have on our culture’s ability to innovate. So how can you celebrate this day? Support an App Developer, review your apps, especially those that you aren’t using and simplify. Can you write a kind review on an app you use? Researchers have concluded in their studies that 100% of screen time is spent using apps. The average user has more than 80 apps on his or her phone. I must be on the high end as I had 196 - time for an App Fall Cleaning. Between Android and Apple there are over 5 million combined apps to choose from in their respective stores.
What is your favorite app? What is your most practical app and how has it helped you? Comment below.
APP AND GAP
The Ohio State University conducted a study entitled: “When Children Are Not Read to at Home: The Million Word Gap”. Please click on the link to access the whole study. Researchers discovered that a child who read only one book a day will still hear about 290,000 more words by the time they are 5 years old than those who aren’t read to at home.
The study was conducted in the following manner: First, the 100 most circulated books for both board books (targets infants and toddlers) and picture books (targets preschoolers) were identified. Then a random selection of 30 books from both lists was made and the number of words in each book counted. Board Books – 140 words approximately, Picture Books - 228 words on average. Next, numbers calculating an approximation of how many words children would hear by the time they turn 5 was made:
Never read to - 4,662 words.
1-2 times per week - 63,570 words.
3-5 times per week - 169,520 words.
Daily - 96,660 words.
Five books a day - 1,483,300 words.
Can you imagine what you could do with a million words? Imagine what you could you describe, feel, and experience. I never did like “Green Eggs and Ham”; I figured that out from that book I can express: “You let me be!”, “I could not”, “I will not” “I will”.
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“From Where the Wild Things Are” I learned mischief, rumpus, private and terrible. What would you do with those words at age 5? Write a sentence in the comments below.
From “Talk About The Monster” I wrote the words Icky, Chortle, beady. If you would like an app that will add 157 different words to build and enrich your little readers vocabulary download your copy today and please refer to parents or educators who you think would love and appreciate this tool.
Talk About the Monster” is the journey of a little girl who awakens to her fear and the steps she takes as well as the emotions she experiences to face her fear and eventually come to a place of peace. The story helps jumpstart the conversation about describing what you see feel and think which will be helpful when children in the future face their fear, anxiety, and monsters with whimsical words and vibrant images. This is simply another tool to place in your child’s toolbox of life and add to your children’s million word march.
FEATURES
• 157 different words to build and enrich a little reader’s vocabulary.
• 80 interactive elements to engage the user’s experience.
• Read Myself option or Read to Me option for the user.
Available on IOS, Android, and Google Platforms.