"Tinfoil Hat" Officially Added to Oxford English Dictionary - March 2011 Update

Perhaps inspired by extensive useage on this website? the words "tinfoil hat" have been officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary......

March 2011
The latest update of the OED, published on 24 March 2011, revises more than 1,900 entries and adds new words from across the dictionary. The OED's chief editor, John Simpson, provides some observations on the revisions in this update, while Graeme Diamond and Katherine Martin comment on some of the most interesting new words in the batch. A full list of new words can be found below.

From the source:

The new entry for tinfoil hat n. recounts how the shiny chapeau began its life with only festive connotations. However, in 1986, just over a century after its first attestation as an innocent party favour, the tinfoil hat migrated to a more sinister milieu, popularly associated with conspiracy theories suggesting that such headwear could protect the wearer from mind control or surveillance. This association, in turn, led to the development of a depreciative attributive use, designating people regarded as paranoid or delusional, and to the adjectival compound tinfoil-hat-wearing, also included in this update.

Ok, I guess that is one explanation.....


Other new words added include:

List of new words
In addition to revised versions of Second Edition entries, the following new words were added:

•about round, adv.
•ambigram, n.
•banh mi, n.
•Barnard's star, n.
•bet-hedging, n.
•bet-hedging, adj.
•biker, n.
•biologic, adj. and n.
•calligram, n.
•car crash, n.
•couch surf, v.
•couch surfer, n.
•couch surfing, n.
•cream crackered, adj.
•crème de cassis, n.
•Divehi, n.
•dot-bomb, n. and adj.
•dotted line, n. and adj.
•drill-down, n.
•dubplate, n.
•Dutch colonial, adj. and n.
•ego-surf, v.
•ego-surfing, n.
•English colonial, adj. and n.
•fabless, adj.
•fnarr fnarr, int. and adj.
•gnasher, n.
•gremolata, n.
•headline, v.
•headlined, adj.
•headlining, adj.
•hentai, n.
•heteronormative, adj.
•heteronormativity, n.
•Hindutva, n.
•June, n.
•kleftiko, n.
•la-la land, n.
•lari, n.
•LOL, n.1
•LOL, int. and n.2
•lumpenintelligentsia, n.
•meep, n. (and int.)
•meep, v.
•muffin top, n.
•non-dom, n.
•non-domicile, n.
•non-domiciled, adj.
•OMG, int., (n.), and adj.
•pap, n.5
•pap, v.3
•party-crasher, n.
•party-crashing, n.
•party-crashing, adj.
•radioprotectant, adj. and n.
•rotograph, v.
•rotoscope, v.
•rotoscoped, adj.
•rotoscoping, n.
•rototill, v.
•rototilled, adj.
•rotten egg, n.
•Rotterdammer, n.
•Rottie, n.
•rottle, n.2
•rotty, adj.
•rouding time, n.
•rough-cut, adj.
•rough-cut, v.
•rough-dress, v.
•roughed-in, adj.
•rough-in, n.
•roughstock, n.
•roulade, v.
•roulading, n.
•roulette, v.
•roundman, n.
•round-nose, adj. and n.
•round-trip, v.
•roupily, adv.
•Roussanne, n.
•roustabouting, n.
•routed, adj.2
•router, n.6
•routery, n.
•routineness, n.
•rowdily, adv.
•rowed, adj.3
•rower, n.3
•rowlock, n.2
•Royal Free disease, n.
•royalness, n.
•rozzle, v.
•RSA, n.2
•Rt. Rev., n.
•Rt. Revd., n.
•Ru, n.
•rua, n.
•ruach, n.
•rub-a-dub, v.1
•rubber-banded, adj.
•rubberization, n.
•rubberize, v.1
•Rubisco, n.
•rubrene, n.
•rubrification, n.2
•rubus, n.
•ruck, v.7
•ruckly, adj.2
•rude, n.1
•rudimentarily, adv.
•ruesome, adj.
•ruff, n.10
•ruff, int. (and n.11)
•rufiyaa, n.
•Rugby sevens, n.
•rugelach, n.
•rugulate, adj.
•ruleful, adj.
•rumble-de-thumps, n.
•Ruminal, adj.1
•rumminess, n.1
•rumour control | rumor control, n.
•Rumping, adj.
•rumspringa, n.
•run-and-shoot, adj. and n.
•runathon, n.
•runchick, n.
•Rungu, n.
•runiform, adj.
•run-round, n.
•ruote, n.
•Rupert, n.
•RUPP, n.
•Ruppia, n.
•rural economics, n.
•Rurales, n.
•ruralite, n.
•Russellite, n.1 and adj.
•Russellite, n.2
•Russellite, n.3
•Russophilia, n.
•Russophobic, adj.
•Russophone, n. and adj.
•russula, n.
•rusticate, adj.
•rusticator, n.
•rusticle, n.
•Rusyn, n. and adj.
•Ruthenic, adj.1
•ruthenous, adj.
•Ruthian, adj.
•rutinic, adj.
•rutting, n.2
•ryanodine, n.
•ryotei, n.
•ryugi, n.
•Second Coming, n.
•singledom, n.
•Skidi, n. and adj.
•smack talk, n.
•smack talking, n.
•smack-talking, adj.
•spinback, n.
•state-run, adj.
•stonewash, n.
•stonewash, v.
•stonewashed, adj.
•suicide door, n.
•taquito, n.
•tetri, n.
•tinfoil hat, n.
•Wag, n.4
•wassup, int.
•yidaki, n.

Source: www.oed.com...

To celebrate this victory, For us "conspiracy nuts".. I present the Tinfoil hat thread. Link..S&F!!

Let's all make a celebratory tinfoil hat!

They added hentai... That's pretty funny.

I wonder if trolling is in the dictionary?

Originally posted by TechVampyre
To celebrate this victory, For us "conspiracy nuts".. I present the Tinfoil hat thread. Link..S&F!!

Let's all make a celebratory tinfoil hat!

Thanks for posting that link.
How could anyone forget that thread? ......

reply to post by manta78


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