Omnipresent omnishambles

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Published: 19 Nov 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: Life

I have learned two new words today: omnishambles and gif.

Both these words have been selected Word Of The Year (WOTY) 2012, one by Oxford English Dictionary, and the other by Oxford American Dictionary.

Interestingly enough, my spell check is reacting strongly against omnishambles, putting a squiggly red line under it to tell me that this word is definitely not correct. Autocorrect is stumped, however, and the thesaurus cannot find a replacement or a synonym for the word.

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geoffo
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Discussion 3 : 20 Nov 2012 at 00.203
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TS thinks he is omniscient and dreams of being omnipotent but thankfully he is neither omnipresent or omnificent.
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Discussion 2 : 19 Nov 2012 at 19.302
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"The Pitak Siam movement is shambolic." First of all, never use words you have no idea what they mean or the proper context to use them. Second, back up any claims with facts as you are no expert in anything. You apparently do not know the difference between gif and animated gif. That is what Google is for. Please learn how to use it to educate yourself or have the gov't give you one of those fake IPADS the first graders use to further their education, so you can further yours.
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Discussion 1 : 19 Nov 2012 at 11.111
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Shakespeare created 1700 new words http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html
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