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| Back in Victorian Dublin a man bet he could get everyone in the city using a brand new word within 24 hours. He won the bet by having four letters scrawled all over Dublin's walls that night! Next morning everyone was pointing at the letters, saying them out loud and asking what it was! The letters were Q U I and Z. He had created the word QUIZ - which is why we use the word now to describe competitions where someone says, "What is...?" |
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Peter Ryding, author of the 'Well, I Never Knew That!' books, made a similar bet! To create a brand new word and get it into the dictionary! This, he says, turned into a gargantuan project: tracking down and linking the most intriguing, fascinating and funny origins of everyday phrases and names in the English language. All the boring phrases, he says, have been thrown away! And that's how this series of books came about! When Peter's friends read his books, they often said "Well, I never knew that!" - and the name for the series, and for the campaign (WINKT being the acronym), was born! So this is the word - WINKT! YOUR HELP, PLEASE!! So we need you to help us finish our
story! All you need to do is send us an e-mail including your name
and using an e-mail address where we can contact you. E-mail us at
word@winkt.com
with your name and we'll add your name to the campaign!! It costs you
nothing and you automatically become a privileged member of the WINKT
Club! The more names we get for our petition the better. When we get
enough, you know you will have played a part in creating a BRAND
NEW WORD in the English language! In fact, if we get enough, we may even
get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most requested word ever!!
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