Anyone thats spent much time in my company might have heard me use the word “funner” in conversations. Jad always laughs at me when I do and quite often tells me that “funner” is not a real word. my reply is that it deserves to be a word and if a word gets used often enough eventually it starts to enter into the dictionaries and becomes a “real word”. The latest additions to the Oxford English Dictionary, which include words like pineappley, heroin chic, freakazoid, dotcom, google, air kiss, bouncebackability, carpet muncher, DVD, energizer bunny, skatepunk, wazoo, and many more, are just proof of the validity of my theory.
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