DOH! A DICTIONARY UPDATEWords: Woe and Wonder
By Blair Shewchuk
CBC News Online
What the pyramids were to ancient Egyptian civilization, the Oxford English Dictionary is to English-language scholarship – the most impressive collective achievement of our civilization. The difference is that inside the OED pulses something alive, growing, and evolving.
Richard Lederer (1994)
Brace yourselves. The following paragraph is now endorsed by the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (OED):
Surfing has its advantages. You can have a bad hair day, or even do the full monty, and nobody in the chat room will ever know as long as the webcam is off. But, doh!, those cookies and that 24/7 spam. It can make you sigh like crazy, if not actually cyberphobic.OK. So editors at Oxford University Press didn't really approve the sentences. CBC News Online takes full responsibility for content and presentation.
But those words and phrases in bold italics? They are among roughly 250 terms recently added to a slowly evolving new edition of the OED, which calls itself "the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium."
It's a boast that many people on both sides of the Atlantic would probably not dispute. Some might quibble, however, with the way journalists covered the announcement about the updated definitions.
DOH!? WELL DUH!
Last month (June 2001), several news agencies claimed that television cartoon clod Homer Simpson had finally belched into the big time of lexicography.
But Homer's trademark doh! actually appeared in The New Oxford Dictionary of English three years ago. It's defined on page 545 as an informal exclamation "used to comment on an action perceived as foolish or stupid. (For example), 'He had approached the wrong set of supporters. Doh!'"
So the significance of the statement issued by Oxford University Press wasn't that doh! was in one of its many dictionaries, or even that the term's definition was now longer: "Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usually mildly derogatory) implying that another person has said or done something foolish."
Homer's triumph was that doh! had made it into THE dictionary of English dictionaries – the mighty OED, which is so vast that it occupies several library shelves, and which takes so much time to update thoroughly that only two complete editions have ever been issued: one in 1928, and the other in 1989.
The real news was that for the first time in history Oxford had issued a list of fresh entries spanning the alphabet, from acid jazz to zero tolerance, for a new edition of the OED that is still years away from being published.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson (1784)
SNAIL MAIL
Some people will undoubtedly welcome the arrival of words like cybersquatter and webliography, arguing that change is natural and healthy. Others will cringe, repeating complaints about the impermanence and impoverishment of English that date back centuries. To them, the appearance of duh, dumb down and cheesy will all be sadly appropriate.
Regardless of which camp you're in, one of the more striking aspects of Oxford's latest project to update its colossal dictionary is the contrast between plodding scholarship and the lightning-fast technology that many of us rely on today.
It seems fitting that one of the terms that has slowly wiggled its way into the great treasury of words is a common description of a generally reliable but comparatively slow form of communication: the postal service.
The fact that snail mail is only now being officially added sums up the slow pace of exhaustively researched lexicography.
Some other dictionaries, including the 1998 Canadian Oxford, already include the noun, identifying it as slang for "the ordinary postal system as opposed to the electronic mail system." But such a brief entry would seem out of place in the OED, which prides itself on historic details, including the best known evidence of when a term first surfaced as well as specific examples of how it has been used by writers.
No other language has anything even remotely approaching (the OED) in scope. Because of its existence, more is known about the history of English than any other language in the world.
Bill Bryson (1990)
OED: EXTRAORDINARY
The "O" in OED certainly doesn't stand for Ordinary. The origins of the dictionary itself are as fascinating as any etymology found inside. It began as a proposal by The Philological Society in Britain in 1858. Four volumes were planned, with supporters optimistic the task could be completed in 10 years.
But the first instalment (A to ANT) wasn't ready until 1884, and it took several more decades for the rest of the dictionary to appear. All 10 volumes were finally finished in 1928 – 70 years after the project was first approved. There's a good chance you've never used the last entry in a sentence – zyxt, an Old Kentish term for to see.
The Philological Society's masterpiece was almost published by Macmillan, but negotiations broke down in 1876. Oxford University Press signed on in 1879, the same year legendary editor James Murray took over the project. His stewardship of the work, and friendship with a convicted killer who contributed thousands of citations from an asylum, are chronicled in Simon Winchester's 1998 book The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Why did it take so long to finish the First Edition? Murray's suggestion that the title be expanded to include the phrase "on Historical Principles" sums up a big part of the delay.
The OED was not merely going to list English words as far back as 1150 AD, and to offer pronunciations, definitions, as well as Latin, Greek or other roots where applicable. It also intended to cite passages from published material illustrating how every term had been used in a given context over the centuries, and to include the earliest known record of each word's appearance in print.
The result was a remarkable collection of nearly 415,000 definitions and 1.8 million quotations spread over 15,490 pages. As the language continued to evolve, several supplements were published in separate volumes over the next 50 years.
In 1989 the OED combined everything into a mostly unrevised Second Edition of 20 books containing just over 615,000 definitions and 2.4 million quotations. Oxford has produced several smaller "concise" and "abridged" versions over the years. But there is no other dictionary even remotely like the main OED in the world, and a Third Edition is now well underway.
It should be understood that fully comprehensive coverage of all elements of the language is a chimera. That said, the content of the (Oxford English Dictionary) is certainly comprehensive within reasonable bounds. OED Chief Editor John Simpson (2000)
'CAPACIOUS COMPUTERS'
Before he retired from "the great theatre of lexicography" about 15 years ago, OED Chief Editor Robert Burchfield wrote some essays about the challenges of his job. "It has always been discouraging to see the waves of new words lapping in behind as one dashed one's frame against the main flood," he said.
New technology, however, offered the promise of compiling and comparing entries more quickly, as well as updating the main dictionary on a regular basis.
"The Murrayan plan, a product of the 1870s, will be used as a template for this gigantic electronic structure of the future," Burchfield explained in his 1989 book Unlocking The English Language.
"It is a noble plan, and it is a stroke of luck that the work of many scholars and men of letters of the last hundred years has provided a suitable foundation on which scholars of the future can build with their capacious computers."
The Second Edition was issued on CD-ROM in 1992, more than 60 kilograms of paper replaced by about 550 megabytes of text. An updated version appeared in 1999. Last year, the OED became available on the Internet, even though the term Internet wasn't officially added to the dictionary itself until a few weeks ago. The online version now has 23 volumes, and is expanding every quarter.
Big dictionaries are nothing but storerooms with infrequently visited and dusty corners. Richard Bailey (1991)
NO DASH TO DOT COM
As Burchfield predicted, lexicography has entered a new age. For the first time, new words can be added and old ones revised with a few keystrokes – although the expectation of rigorous scholarship hasn't changed. In a 1999 interview posted on AskOxford.com, his replacement, Chief Editor John Simpson, said it still takes about five years before a new word makes it into the slowly swelling OED.
Part of the problem is the sheer volume of data now available. In the old days a lexicographer might begin research with 100 handwritten, well researched submissions from reliable volunteers who had been reading books, magazines, newspapers, and other English publications from around the world. Now a computer search engine can retrieve 10,000 citations of a single word in seconds. The challenge is sorting through what's relevant and important.
Although some terms on the OED's June list have appeared in condensed or abridged Oxford dictionaries (including World Wide Web, WWW, and just plain Web), others have not (for instance, dot com, also spelled .com).
The fact that The New Oxford Dictionary of English, published in 1998, ignores dot.com but bothers to include an archaic meaning of dot ("a dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband") doth show (another entry in the same tome) the problem of trying to capture a living language.
For an inkling of the OED's new look, here is about 10 per cent of the roster officially welcomed into the dictionary with fanfare last month, on what Oxford University Press called a "red-letter day":
browser
channel surf
click
control freak
cybersex
doh!
domain
dot com
double click
duh
dumb down
feelgood factor
full monty
functional food
genetically modified
home page
hypertext link
newsgroup
pay-per-view
quality time
road rage
search engine
serial killer
serial monogamist
slacker
snail mail
spam
urban myth
video on demand
webmeister
There are 20 other words that begin with cyber, and 10 more that start with web. Many terms, like peace accord and caregiver, are so common some people might be surprised they're being added only now. Others, like information highway and millennium bug, seem a bit odd for the opposite reason – they're words in retirement, soon to become fossils. The fact that year 2000 and Y2K were both added to the OED in the summer of 2001 speaks volumes.
Doh! is now part of Oxford's magnum opus, and those who care to can glean a great deal. For instance, "The Simpsons" actually began as a segment on another American TV program, "The Tracey Ullman Show." Homer's doh! was first heard during a short episode called "Punching Bag" on Nov. 27, 1988.
The word didn't actually appear on paper. The script simply asked for an "annoyed grunt" by actor Dan Castellaneta, who credits Laurel and Hardy films for his inspiration. Castellaneta took James Finlayson's euphemism for damn ("Do-o-o-o") and speeded it up. Over the years the word has been spelled several ways, including d'oh.
July 24, 2009
Words: Woe and Wonder
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Items Seized in Michael Jackson Case | TMZ.com
Items Seized in Michael Jackson Case | TMZ.comItems Seized in Michael Jackson Case
We now have a copy of the law enforcement document listing the items seized yesterday at Dr. Conrad Murray's medical office in Houston.
The items include 1 vial of Phentermine (weight loss drug), 1 vial of Clonazepam (a muscle relaxer), a photocopy picture of Dr. Murray, Rolodex cards, public storage receipts, bio info on Dr. Murray, emails from Stacey Howie (we do not know who that person is), and a Rolodex card with Fed Ex information.
Mystery Woman in Jackson Investigation
Her name is Stacey Howe. During the Houston raid of Dr. Murray's office, federal agents seized 2 "Yahoo emails from Stacey Howie (sic)." In the raid of Dr. Murray's storage unit, the feds seized "correspondence addressed to Stacey Howe."
Howe is connected to Dr. Murray's Las Vegas medical practice.
We're told when agents raided Dr. Murray's Houston storage unit, they specifically asked the manager if she knew "Stacey" and whether she was a manager at Dr. Murray's office.
Feds Raid Dr. Conrad Murray's Office | TMZ.com
Feds Raid Dr. Conrad Murray's Office | TMZ.comJackson Doc's Interest in Sleeping Disorders
An interesting turn in the Michael Jackson investigation. Several items were seized at Dr. Conrad Murray's Houston office -- "Pamphlets on Sleep Center."
We're told Jackson may have taken the powerful anesthesia Propofol the day he died because he couldn't sleep. Police believe Dr. Murray may have administered the drug.
The Sleep Center is located near Doctor's Hospital in Houston. Dr. Murray was suspended from Doctor's Hospital -- the administrator tells us he believes the doctor was suspended for not completing medical records in a timely fashion.
As for Dr. Murray's affiliation with the Sleep Center -- a rep from the company hung up when we told them we were TMZ.Feds Raid Dr. Conrad Murray's Office
We've learned the Houston office of Dr. Conrad Murray is currently being raided by federal authorities ... and we've learned they are looking specifically for all medical records relating to Michael Jackson.
We're told 8 Drug Enforcement Agency vehicles arrived at his offices about 30 minutes ago. Two LAPD detectives also arrived on scene along with uniformed members of the Houston Police Department and 10 members of the DEA's Tactical Diversion Team. There are another dozen or so DEA agents on hand.
The law enforcement agents, armed with a search warrant, entered the property and began going through the property.
We're told the LAPD asked the DEA for help in serving the warrant on the Armstrong Medical Clinic in Houston. The warrant is sealed.
Dr. Murray was Michael Jackson's personal physician -- he was the man who performed CPR on Jackson before he died.
UPDATE: Last night, Murray's lawyer, Edward Chernoff, issued a statement on his website regarding investigators asking for more medical records:
"The coroner wants to clear up the cause of death; we share that goal. Based on Dr. Murray's minute-by-minute and item-by-item description of Michael Jackson's last days, he should not be a target of criminal charges."
UPDATE: It appears the DEA has left the building.
Michael Jackson's doctor becomes focus of manslaughter probe - Los Angeles Times
Michael Jackson's doctor becomes focus of manslaughter probe - Los Angeles TimesMichael Jackson's doctor becomes focus of manslaughter probe
Search warrants issued in Houston identify Dr. Conrad Murray as a target of the investigation into the pop star's death.Michael Jackson's personal physician was identified as a suspect in the Los Angeles Police Department's manslaughter investigation into the pop star's death, according to court records filed Thursday in Houston.
A pair of search warrants filed in Harris County District Court stated that investigators were looking for "items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense."The searches, which were carried out Wednesday at Murray's medical clinic and storage unit in Houston, gave authorities access to billing records, medication orders, shipping receipts, billing receipts, medical records and "implements and instruments used in the commission of a crime."Chernoff has said that his client did not give Jackson any narcotics or other medication that "should have" caused his death.
The court records were the first public confirmation by police that Murray was a focus of their probe. Detectives previously had interviewed Murray, but had declined to identify him as a suspect.
"I do not know what they are looking for, and I can't possibly tell you how anything they took in any way connects with the death of Michael Jackson," said Murray's attorney, Edward Chernoff, who was present at both of the searches.
Acting on behalf of the LAPD, a member of the Houston Police Department's narcotics division obtained the search warrant for Murray's Houston office on Monday from a Harris County District Court judge.
They searched the office for 3 1/2 hours Wednesday, confiscating a computer, a Rolodex card with FedEx information and e-mails from one of Murray's former employees.
The inventory of items taken in the search included vials of two drugs: 27 tablets of phentermine, a prescription appetite suppressant; and one tablet of clonazepam, a muscle relaxant. During that search, authorities also seized public storage receipts, a rental agreement and a move-in receipt.
Sue Lyon, general manager of West 18th Street Self Storage, where Murray has rented a 10-by-15-foot storage unit since April, said authorities found information about her company at Murray's office, then sought the second search warrant.
"They found my business card," Lyon said. "That's how they put it together. They came straight over here."
Among the items seized from the storage unit were two computer hard drives, a medical board certificate, letters to a former employee, a list of contacts and papers pertaining to his practice. On the search warrant return and inventory, authorities listed a suspension notice from a Houston hospital. They also took letters from the Internal Revenue Service, a Texas Department of Public Safety controlled substance registration and public records from the Texas controller.
An administrative assistant at Doctors Hospital in Houston confirmed that Murray has been suspended from practicing at the hospital. The offense was "very much" routine and minor, she said.
Murray, a cardiologist with practices in Las Vegas and Houston, had been hired to care for Jackson at a monthly salary of $150,000. Murray was at Jackson's home and found the singer not breathing June 25. He administered CPR before paramedics were called. The singer was officially pronounced dead at UCLA Medical Center.
Sources familiar with the investigation have said that authorities removed propofol, a powerful anesthetic, and other medications from Jackson's home. Murray's attorney has declined to comment on whether the doctor administered the drug, which is most commonly used by anesthesiologists in hospitals.
L.A. County coroner's investigators have collected evidence from two other medical professionals who worked with Jackson before his death.
Earlier this week, Ed Winter, assistant chief coroner, obtained information from Dr. Randy Rosen, an anesthesiologist. Winter told The Times that Jackson had been treated at Rosen's Beverly Hills office but declined to say under what circumstances. Jackson's second child was delivered at the facility, according to birth records. Rosen's office did not return calls seeking comment .
On Wednesday, Winter visited the Inglewood office of Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse who operates a Los Angeles-based nutritional counseling business. Lee said Jackson had complained to her earlier this year of insomnia and pleaded for her to get him propofol. Lee told The Times she never prescribed or gave Jackson drugs, but did design a nutritional program for him, which she provided to Winter. She said she warned Jackson against using propofol.
POPPA DOC Sperm Derm Donor and that Michael Jackson brain tingling...buried with one white glove or creepy?
Michael Jackson to be buried with one white glove: cool or creepy? | The Dish Rag | Los Angeles Times
Still so many lingering questions about Michael Jackson. ...What killed Michael?
Here's Michael Jackson's official death certificate. The cause of death is listed as "deferred."
Where is Michael Jackson’s body being kept?
After Tuesday's memorial service, LAPD Chief William J. Bratton would say only, “ "We have to keep some secrets.”
Sources familiar with the case told the L.A. Times that MJ's body was in safekeeping after being released to the family following the autopsy by the Los Angeles County coroner.
But the other big question is where is Michael Jackson's brain?
L.A. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter says that Jackson brain, or at least some of it, is still being held by investigators and would be returned to the family for burial after all the tests are completed."As soon as we are done with the brain, we will return it," Winter said. "There is a whole series of tests that will be done."
It is not uncommon for the coroner to hold on to a brain or samples from it. Families sometimes delay burying a loved one until after the brain has been returned.
Where do you think he should be buried?
And would you visit a Neverland grave? What would you leave as a token of your affection?
Dr. Arnold Klein, a Beverly Hills dermatologist with a powerful and pampered celebrity clientele, admits he once donated sperm to a sperm bank.
And he also admits he gave Michael Jackson prescriptions for Demerol, although he did not prescribe Diprivan, found in Jackson's home when he died and suspected of causing his death.
Klein said Wednesday that he discovered that Jackson was using Diprivan while on tour in Germany. Klein warned Jackson the drug was dangerous. "I told him he was absolutely insane."
Yeah, because warning a drug addict about using drugs always does a world of good.
You may recall this was the Dangerous Tour, after which Jackson publicly admitted an addiction to prescription painkillers and was hospitalized and even went into rehab.
But wait til you hear what Klein says about his sperm donation and who should get Michael's kids.
When Larry King asked Klein if he was the sperm donor for Michael's children, Klein did not meet his gaze.
When King pressed him on whether he was the biological father of Michael's kids, this exchange occurred:
KING: Now what about all the rumors about you and the fathering of those children?
KLEIN: Here's the most important thing. Michael loved those children as a father. Those children loved him as a father. As far as I am concerned, that's the most important grouping that is.
KING: That's not answering the question.
KLEIN: No, because I'm not going to answer it the way you want me to answer it, because...
KING: Well, you can say no.
KLEIN: I can say no then. I will say no if that's what you want to hear.
KING: No, I want to hear what you know.
KLEIN: What I will tell you is I think what's most important about this whole thing, to end this thing, is that the most important thing in who the father is -- who the children want their father to be.
Klein also feels his former nurse Debbie Rowe should get the kids because Katherine Jackson is too old and Joe Jackson is out of it.
Yeah, not like a reclusive and disfigured 50-year-old drug addict who needs painkillers to make it through the day and intravenous anesthesia to sleep.
Klein didn't go to the memorial. He says he's an Orthodox Jew and doesn't approve of the body not being buried by now.
But was he even invited?
After all, the Jackson family gave LAPD a list of doctors they were suspicious of. And whaddya know? Klein's name was on the list.
What do you think about this guy? Are you curious?
Michael Jackson will be reportedly wear one of his favorite white sparkly gloves in his coffin.
Gaspar Gloves owner Dorothy Gaspar, who designed gloves for the "This Is It" tour, tells TMZ that Michael's sister La Toya Jackson wanted Michael to wear a glove inside the casket.
La Toya chose a white leather glove Dorothy made for Michael 10 to 12 years ago -- a white leather glove covered in Swarovski crystals.
It's not that far-fetched. Read about what other celebrities have worn to their own funeral.
Civilizations have long buried their dead with clothing, riches and personal items. King Tut was buried with a solid gold mask on his mummified head, hundreds of gold figurines, an ebony and ivory chair, ornamental vases, weapons, and enough seeds for a sizable garden in the afterlife.
Actor Bela Lugosi, most famous for his role as Dracula, was buried in his long flowing high-collared vampire cape. What, no earth from his homeland?
Humphrey Bogart starred in the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not" with Lauren Bacall, his fourth wife. One of her lines to Bogie was, "If you need anything, just whistle." Bacall put a whistle inscribed with that line inside the silver urn with his ashes when he was interred in 1957.
Whether MJ will be buried encased in concrete to prevent grave robbers is another matter.
That's just a rumor, folks -- one among hundreds of unconfirmed whispers floating around the Web. Believe what you will.
What do you think Michael Jackson should wear to his own funeral?
Which one of his iconic costumes is most suitable for the afterlife?
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Propofol Found in Jackson's Two Autopsies : LimeLife
Propofol Found in Jackson's Two Autopsies : LimeLifePropofol Found in Jackson's Two Autopsies
In Celebs by SplashNews , on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 2:45 PM (PDT).
Courtesy of SplashNews.com
Propofol has been found in Michael Jackson's body, the results of two autopsies have revealed. The results are from an official autopsy by the Los Angeles County Coroner and a private pathologist's autopsy carried out for the Jackson family.
Both have found propofol in his system, while the second private autopsy has confirmed the needle track marks found on his body in the first. The drug, a powerful sedative and anaesthetic agent, is not available outside of hospitals and is not a controlled substance. Propofol, sold under the trade name of Diprivan, is being seen as the "smoking gun" in the multi-agency investigation of Jackson's sudden death on June 25 at his Holmby Hills residence. County officials have confirmed that Jackson was taking prescription medications when he died. A public report on their findings is not expected until at least next week because of the ongoing probe into the case. The private autopsy was performed on June 27, two days after Jackson died and a day after the coroner's examination of the body.
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