it's official

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

There must be a Red Dwarf fan on the review committee for the Oxford English Dictionary. Or I choose to believe there is, anyway - just in time for the 25th year of the show, they have officially added the word 'smeg' to the dictionary.

This is from last week, I think, but I just heard it on the "Stoke Me a Clipper" Introcast uploaded late last night. I wonder if the entry will include a reference to the parent word "smegma?" (Not that I know this is the parent word, but I'm just assuming.)

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[dark8nightshade.livejournal.com]

It does:
http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2013/06/28/oxford-english-dwarf/

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm glad to see the official entry, thanks - I wasn't able to find it on the site I gave without joining up, and I'm at work so that wasn't really an option right now. :-)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

This is cool. :D

If there are any Texans here who haven't seen RDX yet, it's getting its US premiere there soon: http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2013/06/28/a-new-kera

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

On a tangent, did you see Mark's tweet about the airing of Trojan - "An investigation into the dark side of sibling rivalry" or some such? :-)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I favourited it. https://twitter.com/BottledBeerYear/status/350156175700004864

You have to give the man credit - his career's taking off but he still pushes RD at every opportunity. I have the feeling he'd come back like a shot. :)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I would watch an entire half-hour of Howard and Arnold bitching at each other and about the rest of the family.

[missflibble.livejournal.com]

I *think* it's supposed to get an entry into the Oxford Dictionary if the word makes a certain number of appearances in popular culture/written culture etc etc over a certain period of time. I *think*.