Mon, May 11, 2009 | 12:34 BST
“Noob” could be the millionth English word

Beyond belief. “Noob” could be the millionth official English word, according to this MSN report, citing UK newspapers the Telegraph, the Sun and the Independent.
Global Language Monitor acknowledges new words once they have been used 25,000 times by media outlets, social networking websites and in other public sources, apparently.
That’s not even funny. Full thing through there.


12 comments
#1
Mike
11/05/09, 12:39 pm
I thought the English language already topped 1 million. I hope innit’s in there. Best word word ever, innit.
#2
G1GAHURTZ
11/05/09, 12:43 pm
Oh Mike, you’re such a drengerøv!
#3
Gekidami
11/05/09, 12:45 pm
Well i guess VG247 is a media outlet and Pat must have said ‘innit’ over 25,000 times already.
#4
Chutn3y
11/05/09, 12:49 pm
Anyone up for cut-n-pasting ‘Moob’ into their FaceBook profile 25,000 times to see if we can get it officially recognised?
#5
Gekidami
11/05/09, 1:14 pm
So is ‘smeg’ an official english word then? I’m sure thats been used millions of times.
And it may be important to point out that not only the english use the word noob.
#6
Blerk
11/05/09, 1:20 pm
omg!
Wait, is that in the dictionary too?
#7
JonFE
11/05/09, 1:55 pm
Blerk, I don’t know about ‘OMG!’ but I’m quite sure ‘WTF?’ should be in the dictionary by now!
#8
Prof Power Glove
11/05/09, 2:00 pm
I don’t think ‘smeg’ has been used since 1995 and even then, it was unearthed by the guy who wrote Red Dwarf (who in turn read it in an ancient manuscript from the 1800′s).
Is n00b technically ‘english’ though? Or are we being taken over gradually, by a cyberneti binary language!!?!?
#9
deanimate
11/05/09, 2:42 pm
smeg is a cracking word.
noob sounds a fair addition i think.
#10
Spiral
11/05/09, 3:02 pm
If it’s noob, fine. If it’s n00b then there needs to be a killing spree.
#11
Tonka
11/05/09, 3:10 pm
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The “All your base are belong to us” translation will be the norm in the future. That is how people wil speak. Not like we do now.
It’s a message from the future passed down to us.
All hail. Someone set up us the bomb!
#12
dirigiblebill
11/05/09, 6:04 pm
OED entry or it didn’t happen