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Hello! I am an administrator over at the English Wikipedia next door. You can find my user page there, with much more information about me.

I have an interest in protologisms, slang/jargon, and rare English words.

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Word of the day
for June 11
frowsty adj (British, dialectal)
  1. Of an atmosphere: not fresh; close, musty, stuffy; of an object: having a musty, stale odour.
  2. Of a person: dull, slow; also, unkempt, untidy.
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Sommerloch noun
  1. (journalism) silly season; slow news day (time during the summer break when the media resort to reporting largely inconsequential stories) (literally, “summer hole”)
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