Yes we are all geeks here

[telophase]

If anyone would like their very own random word from the Oxford English Dictionary online edition, just comment here with an email address. You'll get access to the OED definition of that word for three days. :) (They only keep the addresses to ensure that 'inappropriate use' of the dictionary - probably exactly like this - isn't happening. You won't get OED spam. :))

Comments

[octopedingenue]

Have you read The Professor and the Madman? OED loooove.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. ♥ :)

[octopedingenue]

I'm surprised it hasn't been made into a movie yet. Wordplay! Friendship! Penis-chopping!

Also, send the word my way, please. myusername@livejournal.com!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And yours is ... theme! Another long one!

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

That's kind of awesome. Send it to my livejournal address, please?

*matches icon*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sent!

(For anyone interested, it's the verb form of 'can' - short and not-so-simple. :)

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Meeee! mistressrenet at yahoo dot com.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And you get .... spider! Wow .. that one's a lot longer than I expected.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Coolies. Thank you.

what if I want OED spam? ;)

[herchuckness.livejournal.com]

please!

Re: what if I want OED spam? ;)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

In that case you go here (http://dictionary.oed.com/services/email-wotd.html). ;)

And you got full monty. XD

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Yes, please! (batwrangler at gmail dot com)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Accession for you!

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Do me! frostedelves at livejournal dot com

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You are stern (noun form)

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

I'm a BUTT! XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

UNCANNY, ISN'T IT? XD

*snerk*

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Teehee.

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

(Thank you!)

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty please! mtskigirl at hotmail dot com

Thanks!!!!

[rachel-renee.livejournal.com]

sorry that was me

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sent!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You are Marconi, O anonymouse who bears no resmblance to rachel_renee whatsoever, which in addition to the radio guy has soemthing to do with ships' rigging, it seems.

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

Ooooo can I get one?

lady_noremon at yahoo dot ca

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And you, m'dear, are full of spite. XD

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

wildelamassu @ livejournal dot com, please, because it's shiny and something to do that isn't fix the xerox machine.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should spend the day knitting.

[ninjashira.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, me too!

ninja.shira@gmail.com

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sent! If it can make it through the rabblement surrounding you.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

OED! Yes please!

NiennaOgg(at)gmail(dot)com

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you can indulge a bit in writing some dirty realism.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The link you sent is asking me for a login.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

AGH.

OK, it's doing that because it's going through the EZproxy server at TCU, which is how we control access to the various databases we're subscribed to. I have no idea why the fuck it did that wiht the link to you - I just tested it on me and it sent the word to me just fine (the URL the page showed me had the EZproxy address on it, but the link that arrived in the mail didn't. However, remove this:

.ezproxy.tcu.edu

from the URL and it should work just fine.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* Ah. Maybe not. OK, dunno why. I'll re-send it from campus tomorrow and see why it's doing that - it's /supposed/ to - and claims it does - give free access for three days to the entry I send you.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Don't go to too much trouble. I just wasn't sure if I'd missed a step.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It could also be a temporary thing at the OED end, too.

I'm at a different IP address and I used a different email address when sending the test to myself, so I don't think they cut me fof for overusing it. :/