Friday, March 20, 2009

Airgonaut - Word Adoption


Have you ever heard about adopting WORDS? I come across the site www.savethewords.org - a project to promote unused words by Oxford fajar with Oxford University Press. The site is well designed and has thousands of words. Absolutely new words that is very much unfamiliar.

The word which I adopted is "AIRGONAUT". The OUP says AIRGONAUT is one who sails in air. Just fly above the land. Float in air etc. Wikipedia slips 'i' in the word and says argonaut referring to greek mythology, yet meaning similar.

Any way I have adopted and used and published about the word that I adopted. I got a cute certificate also from the organization. Here it is...

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