I keep seeing the word "embiggen" on tech blogs that I read (example below). I can't find it in the dictionary. Should I chalk it up to writing style or call the cops (or, more appropriately, the dict-tectives)? I humbly submit "embiggen" for your rogue's gallery (unless I've got it all wrong).
Here's a reference.
"While you were at home wondering how to get into one of those Oprah Winfrey-style Google keynotes where electronics are given out like Halloween candy, one of our developers was in the audience playing with his new Special Edition Google IO Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Yeah, that's a mouthful.
We stole borrowed the Galaxy and forced it to take pictures with our Wi-Fi+3G iPad 2.
Check out the photos in the gallery below. You can click on any photo to embiggen."
Yeah, that's a mouthful.
We stole borrowed the Galaxy and forced it to take pictures with our Wi-Fi+3G iPad 2.
Check out the photos in the gallery below. You can click on any photo to embiggen."
Sentence Sleuth here:
I personally have never heard that word before (if it even is a word). My vote? Not a word! Yours?
I personally have never heard that word before (if it even is a word). My vote? Not a word! Yours?
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen
So, I guess we have The Simpson's writers to thank! They certainly have shaped our language (doh!)
"I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield."
"I don’t know why; it’s a perfectly cromulent word."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromulent#Embiggen_and_cromulent
I'd be fine with it if it served a purpose. But the word "enlarge" is perfectly good and means the same thing.
I agree. "Enlarge" works just fine!
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