10-01-08 [ Betsy ]
Old news.

04-05-07 [ garret ]
woo
fixed the search by author, randomize, and made the join mailinglist not dependent on the popup box being displayed. An error in subscribing now appears on front page. thanks for the patience, word-ka-teers.

04-05-07 [ hd ]
What's going on?
New owners playing with their new toy, that's what. Paul and Garret sold their interests in the pd to Marty D'Mello and HD Fowler. Kicky-wicksy, for a lot of word-related websites.

11-03-06 [ garret ]
fixed
It's about time for the bi-annual apology from your favorite pseudodictionary programmer. Our web host delivered some pretty substantial server upgrades, and our humble site bit the dust in the ensuing kerfuffle. It's all fixed up now.

10-31-05 [ Betsy ]
Are we pseudofamous or what?
Looks as if some 7th grade English class had as a project today submitting words to the PseudoDictionary. In response to such a high honor, all 100 words added to the input queue today will be accepted &mdash just as they were input. That’s not to say they will remain in the pd as entered, but they will be visible at least for a while &mdash for grading. Good luck, kids. Some of you are going to need it.

10-25-05 [ Betsy ]
Made-up words from The Simpsons at Wikipedia.
Several have expansive entries in the Wiktionary: Craptacular.

10-15-05 [ Betsy ]
Double-Tongued Word Wrester
DTWW is no longer as visually arresting as it once was, but the site otherwise just gets better and better. A delight for word lovers. Urban Dictionary: The Book will be out in a couple of weeks. Urban Dictionary's lexicon just gets bigger and bigger. Aaron Peckham must have a great deal more patience than we do, culling through perhaps 1,000,000 Urban Dictionary entries for the 2,000 or so in his compilation.

04-19-05 [ garret ]
muwhahah
The developer of pseudodcitonary.com is still alive! Feel free to email me ideas … the site is ripe for new features.

03-28-05 [ garret ]
sorry about that
Well, I finally got around to fixing the damn site. I was busy moving from Toronto to Montreal, so I didn’t get around to it until now. Much apologies to those attempting to use the site. I’d rather not have left it this long.

08-28-04 [ garret ]
cliches?
Check out a nice cliche dictionary. lots of good phrases and colloquialisms.

08-19-04 [ garret ]
PD is fixed
it’s all fixed. sorry it took a few days! word up …

08-16-04 [ paul ]
PD is broken
we know the site is having issues and we’re working to fix them as soon as possible. no need to email us about it anymore, and we do appreciate your diligence for letting us know.

12-17-03 [ garret ]
logzilla
we ran out of disk space, because our stats software loves making huge log files. problem fixed.

12-09-03 [ paul ]
domain spelling for dummies
jonathan of anotherpointless has graticiously bought us the domain psuedodictionary.com, for all those people who just plumb can’t remember if the “e” goes before or after the “u.” thanks, jonathan.

10-16-03 [ garret ]
dialect survey
There is an interesting survey here regarding the distribution of dialects across the US. Ooh, look at the pretty, coloured maps …

09-12-02 [ garret ]
pop, soda, or Coke?
since it relates to our language, and the terms we use, check out this article. do you use the word pop? soda? coke? people can be surprisingly passionate about their choice of words ...

09-12-02 [ paul ]
rss feeds
get your rss feeds here! get ’em while they’re hot! get your word of the day feed or your recent word feed here! special thanks to steve c, for writing them.

08-02-02 [ paul ]
viva las vegas
i just got back from vegas, and i’ve added two new words to my vocab. chud and valet bank. use them wisely …

06-12-02 [ garret ]
as I always suspected
so they do cast 'real people' for some commercials! So real, in fact, theres a term for it!

05-16-02 [ paul ]
this is a good one...
oh look, my new favourite word!

05-08-02 [ garret ]
super cool
10k words! woot for us! one cool thing i found yesterday while perusing our weblogs was a well known website using [pd].com's four-oh-find functionality to offer a linked definition to nut-graf. this validates why I wrote it in the first place .. in no way is it a 'cool site' mention - its a use of pseudodictionary.com as an in-line reference, and thats just too cool for school!

05-08-02 [ paul ]
10k freaking words!
hot damn! in just over a year we're now at 10,000 words. this wouldn't have been possible if not for: garret, hd, betsy, lillith, erle, steve, julie, eric, and nita for making this work. thank you.

05-03-02 [ paul ]
local press
for the first time ever, local media has mentioned this site, yay!

04-30-02 [ paul ]
awe yeah
dammit i love praise. and scene360 has more for this site! (in their news section)

04-17-02 [ paul ]
digitalthread.com
check out digitalthread yo, it's super boss.

04-09-02 [ paul ]
headline goes here...
how magically delicious, we're almost at 10,000 words! oh, before i forget, i'd like to welcome julie to our editing staff. she's giving up some of her time to help out adding words to the live site from the que, what a sweetheart!

03-17-02 [ paul ]
poncy!
thanks to everyone that sent in definitions to poncy. as it's in a few real dictionaries, i won't add it to this one, but for those who are curious - it means an effeminate male...originating somewhere in the UK.

03-13-02 [ paul ]
poncy?
if someone knows what the word "poncy" means and where it comes from, please add it to the site and/or email me the definition.

03-05-02 [ paul ]
globe and mail publicity
we're in the globe and mail today, on the last page of the first section. here's what scanned the clipping looks like.

02-27-02 [ paul ]
ftrain.com links to pd
one of my favourite online writers has linked to pseudodictionary, thanks paul!

01-25-02 [ paul ]
dot-com boyfriend
i think this is my favourite word at the moment.

01-04-02 [ paul ]
pick of the year baby!
PD is one of the yahoo picks of the year!!

01-01-02 [ paul ]
woohoo
happy new year everyone! that also means PD is almost a year old, yay!

12-18-01 [ garret ]
hosting changes
okay .. so, over the next 24 hours, the name servers should change and start pointing to our new home on the web. until then, enjoy the refresh page, and the knowledge that you visitors are gunna cost us an arm and a leg in hosting fees from our old provider :P .. as always, if you spot any problems with our new home, email garret

12-11-01 [ garret ]
to be made an example out of
dorm food is both a great word, and a perfect submission. Why, you might ask? It is the perfect submission in terms of style, length, and clarity. The description is informative, and the example is clear, while the whole entry maintains a dark sardonic undertone. Whew! For all you submission-junkies out there, study this!

12-10-01 [ paul ]
watch u8tv.com tonight!
pseudodictionary is gunna be on u8tv tonight at 9:30EST!! so all you people betta watch it. so those of you like me, in PST, should watch it at 6:30.

12-10-01 [ paul ]
welcome nita!
i'd like to extend a warm welcome to nita, the newest editor of our site. gettings 100s of submissions a day is great, so nita will be helping hd with task of adding new entries to the live site.

12-10-01 [ paul ]
the brain trust
well, thebraintrust may be fronting a little bit, but i'm sure it's just a case of excuselocis to make welsh people feel better for having the most commonly spoken language (in secret) on the planet.

12-06-01 [ garret ]
aaaargggg
ok, thanks to James, Noam, and wflaschka for pointing out that pseudodictionary.com was a little more open-source than it needed to be :) problem solved, even if we now look a little more cable-ten than we did 12 hours ago ... also, thanks to memepool for sating the linksluts in paul and I .. we got around 75000 page accesses in the span of 3 days. Also, if you're planning on sending us this kind of traffic in the future, a warning might be nice so we can make sure we have our shiznit in order :) update: more optimizations have been made, thus solving much of the load problems we were experiencing .. our hoster had to moved our database to a dedicated server, we were generating so much load :P

12-02-01 [ paul ]
we're in shift again!
just reading through SHIFT's top 100 sites in this month's issue, and PD is in it again, horray!

11-12-01 [ garret ]
capacity
we should be good, now! if you continue to see problems, mail me with a description of when you saw the problem, and what error messages you saw. sorry about the downtime, but hey, at least it proves we're not a cobwebsite ;)

11-12-01 [ garret ]
is there an Rx in the house?
dam, I wish I had known the word vomitose while I was still at university during exams .. I was constantly at a loss for what to write on my forged doctor notes!

11-08-01 [ paul ]

just in case you're wondering, most of the news updates and the content on this site are just me talking out my ass.

10-04-01 [ paul ]

here's another good one.

09-10-01 [ paul ]

my new favorite word in PD, hehe.

09-09-01 [ garret ]
improved navigation
our visitors now have easy access to the search function other than through the main page by using the 'search' link in the top header. also, the glaring oversight of not having access to words that began with numbers and punctuation has been addressed in the form of two new links (etc, and 0-9) in the (lovingly named) alphabar.

08-18-01 [ paul ]
4000th word
WE'VE HIT 4000 WORDS BABY!! that's just badass beyond belief.

*insert award ceremony speech here*

when i started this site back in jan or feb, i just wanted to have a place where my buddies and i could post funny slang we used. now this site has been on tv, radio, in mags and newspapers, and lots of big websites. i'm so happy at how readily people have helped out with the site and contributed all these words, because with you, the little people, this site wouldn't be more than a silly dictionary with 10 entries, which would hardly be a dictionary at all. i'd like steve for starting the programming of the site, garret for coding the new site, kara and hd and lillith and betsy for being awesome editors, and all of you that have submitted words and participated in our message boards. thank you!

*breaks into tears, cut to commercial*

08-15-01 [ paul ]
weee
garret rocks! that's such a sweet feature. look for a couple more new features soon ;)

08-15-01 [ garret ]
link us
now you've got no excuse for not linking words! you can now link any word on pseudodictionary using the format www.pseudodictionary.com/word. For all you bloggers out there, this makes pseudodictionary.com linkful. try it out! now you can link words without even visiting pseudodictionary and finding out the specific linking code ...

08-14-01 [ garret ]
new pager
yes, I'm alive, and active! you'll notice a new pager when you're browsing words. it allows you to go to any arbitrary page in a search result set. this feature was introduced thanks to a visitor request, so dont hesitate to send in your own feature requests .. anything we can do to help serve you better!

08-11-01 [ paul ]

less than 100 words to go before we reach 4000, sweet!

07-17-01 [ paul ]
funny word link
my friend sent me a link to a site that has a large list of slang and its present meaning...mostly business-related slang too, and most are pretty funny (even though most are entirely politically incorrect, hehe).

07-09-01 [ paul ]
censorship debate
there's actually a good debate going on here about how PD doesn't allow drug or sex related slang on our site. it's worth checking out, and please make your two cents heard as well :)

06-26-01 [ paul ]
we're so medically good
four out of five dentists recommend pseudodictionary as a proven method of reducing the buildup of boring words in your mouth.

06-22-01 [ garret ]
fark is cool
fark.com is a great site. User-submitted links with a deliberate counter-culture in-the-know savvy tone. A few submitters have posted their words’ approval on fark.com. Some of the comment threads on the site remind me of the word-play tennis from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which is a good thing.

06-18-01 [ garret ]
garret likes you all
I think we are going to start thinking about a rating system here on pseudodictionary. Feel free to post your input in the (you-must-be-getting-sick-of-hearing-about-them) messageboards. Also, I’ve cleaned up some bugs around the site (no more blank words in randomizer) … if you still encounter deviant website behaviour, mail me.

06-11-01 [ paul ]
geek or nerd??
add your thoughts in the debate on our message boards.

06-10-01 [ paul ]
the great white north
g’day! some american tried to add the word hoser and said it originated in the US … haha, take off eh! that word is soooo canadian, eh. it’s from the land of backbacon and crullers and beers, not the US!

06-08-01 [ paul ]
interesting link!
hey, i get a tonne of emails from people asking me about the meaning of certain slang words … and really, i have no clue where most of them come from, but now you can go here and ask them!

06-05-01 [ paul ]
check out moluv
maurice over at moluv was the first person to link to PD many moons ago, so once again, props maurice, you rock!

06-05-01 [ paul ]
word up, g
for some reason i’m listening to rap/hiphop today … but listening to the lyrics, i think only 2 or 3 words out of 10 are real words, the rest are words that belong here in PD, hehe.

06-03-01 [ paul ]
we’re superstars!
yay, the new issue of SHIFT features us at #18 in their “top 20 in digital culture” this month. huzza!

06-03-01 [ paul ]
garret rocks
this new version is awesome! i’m so pleased i found garret to help out (and re-write the whole backend and all the functionality). everyone should go check out his site, download his music.

06-03-01 [ garret ]
holy mother of god
i think it works, jim! i hereby bless the code of pseudodictionary. bugs should be reported to garret