Wordia: Redefining the dictionary
Wordia wants you to redefine your vocabulary. From The Independent:
The everyone-join-in dictionary is called wordia.com, and is the joint offspring of the television producer Edward Baker and Michael Birch, the internet entrepreneur who founded Bebo, the social-networking site. They’ve linked up with HarperCollins, the blue-chip publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch, to make use of their electronic dictionary of 76,000 headwords and 120,000 definitions. But the unique selling proposition behind wordia.com is visual: they want to compile an archive of videos in which thousands of members of the public will offer their own definitions of favourite words and have them posted on YouTube, with which Baker and Birch are also in partnership.
I just looked at a few clips on Wordia. Hmmm, it’s very UK-centered (centred?) at this point. And some of the celebrity offerings remind me of Sesame Street:
But nothing tops the late great Richard Pryor:
Perhaps Urban Dictionary should follow suit?
Hat tip to EJC.