NaNoing

[farla]

OpenOffice and Firefox do not recognize the word "sniggering".

I'm now curious if you could do some sort of long term rearrangement of vocabulary use simply by slowly removing terms from various spellchecks, encouraging people to retry with a supported synonym until the word falls out of use entirely, and if someone's already trying this out.

Comments

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

...that's a word? Isn't it just some bastardization of "snickering?"

[wintersheir]

I think I let "snigger" fall out of my vocabulary since part of it would end up censored on all the forums I frequented back in the day.

[bay115.livejournal.com]

I heard snigger a couple times here and there, but yeah I too am not surprised it's not included in dictionaries and such. Maybe it's featured in Windows 7? :P

[kddreams.livejournal.com]

On a completely unrelated note, in Microsoft Word a synonym for "picturesque" is "chocolate box."