The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries got more than 3,000 entries when, in a lighthearted moment, they asked visitors to their Web site to submit their favorite words that aren't in the dictionary.

"It was a lot of fun," Arthur Bicknell, a spokesman for the Springfield-based dictionary publisher, said Monday. "We weren't expecting so many. They only had two weeks."

Some of the proposed words even gained multiple submissions so the editors came up with an unofficial Top 10 list. First place went to "ginormous" -- bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous -- followed by "confuzzled" for confused and puzzled simultaneously, and "whoot," an exclamation of joy. A "lingweenie" -- a person incapable of making up new words -- placed 10th.

--Anyone who knows me knows I use "ginormous" daily.

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1 I like "Assish" and "Fugly."

Posted by: Nanc' at May 18, 2005 10:39 AM (Ailrt)

2 I'm also parial to "nutjob." Ex: Whitney Houston is a nutjob.

Posted by: Lawren at May 18, 2005 11:01 AM (bJB+W)

3 I've used "ginormous" twice today already.

Posted by: Ranto at May 18, 2005 05:54 PM (HoSBk)

4 Nutjob has been around for years ... i figured it was already in the dictionary.

Posted by: Iceman at May 18, 2005 09:59 PM (WW4lw)

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