h2g2's 10,000th Entry
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| 17:05 UK time, Thursday, 21 October 2010
This is a just a quick post to tell you that on Monday h2g2, the Â鶹Éç's popular community site published its 10,000th Edited Guide Entry. The honour goes to Gismos, Whatsits and Thingummys: A Guide to Vague English written by Icy North.
Thingy wasn't a vague term until the 20th Century - it was just a Scottish term for a little thing, usually spelled 'thingie'. The extended forms thingamabob and thingamajig are 18th and 19th Century respectively, with the 'bob' and 'jig' endings having the sense of 'trick' or 'joke'.
As : "try finding THAT on wikipedia!".
Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, Â鶹Éç Online
Comment number 1.
At 21st Oct 2010, BMT-An Alternative View wrote:Ah, but then us lot in H2G2 tend not to use that wicki-whatsit thingummy. ;-)
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Comment number 2.
At 21st Oct 2010, Icy North wrote:The trick, Dog Winters, is not to read Wikipedia before you write it.
In fact, don't even read Wikipedia after you've written it. They will come and read you.
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Comment number 3.
At 21st Oct 2010, TRiG Ireland wrote:It's a worthy recipient of the honour too. Congratulations Icy!
TRiG.
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Comment number 4.
At 22nd Oct 2010, The H2G2 Editors wrote:We've said this before, but congratulations again from us, Icy!
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