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Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry: where witches and wizards go when they reach the age of 11 years old to learn how to become witches and wizards. Hogwarts was created by four founders and each founder had a house: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus is the Hogwarts Motto. It means "Never tickle a sleeping dragon."

Such is the lexicon of the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, adding a rich texture to our language. Harry Potter fans know well that a muggle is a non-magical person. The wizard world tries its best to keep magic a secret from most muggles, as they would not be able to handle it.

Today, the word wizards and esteemed editors of the Oxford Dictionary of English are publishing a revised edition, the New Oxford Dictionary of English, adding 3,000 new words officially to the English language. "Muggle" is now in the dictionary: a person who is not conversant in a particular activity or skill. We are more comfortable blogging about this today, as "blog" is now a word in the dictionary, too, not just netlingo.

Speaking of muggle language and other codswallop, another site worth checking out is the annual list of banished words. These words are banished, not by the wizards and witches of the Hogwarts Academy, but by the Lake Superior State University, which publishes some very nice Banishment Posters that are offered free to all muggles.
Posted by abnu on Thursday, August 21, 2003 @ 5:11 AM [ + ]

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