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Lots of great work went into the 2017 edition of WildWords
While the Spring 2017 class touched a variety of corners of campus, the members did not encompass the entire Northwestern speech community. Students brought a variety of perspectives and backgrounds such as international students, transfer students, some involved with Greek life, others interested in theater and others involved in music/the marching band. Their majors varied and all students identified as female. Topics that were discussed frequently included: editing and/or deleting entries, the ethics surrounding editing/deleting entries, and what creating/editing/deleting entries entails; refining the purpose of WildWords; and discussing how to define the “Northwestern speech community”.


Here's what's new and where it came from:
* big
* big
* words


Here's what's still relevant to the community in a big way:
Here's what's new:
* ab
*Conferrals
* bc
*Dash Three
* dd
*Delibs
 
*The Dolphin Show
Here are words that we have recently categorized as archaic and why
*FBR
* foo
*Fundy
* bar
*Generals
* zap
*ILC
* wpa
*Liftnbop
*PARS
*Persian American Representatives of Students
*Pref Sheet
*Prod Meeting
*Shanley
*Space
*StuCo
*Syntax Club
*Waa-Mu
*Wirtz Center

Latest revision as of 22:49, 2 June 2017

While the Spring 2017 class touched a variety of corners of campus, the members did not encompass the entire Northwestern speech community. Students brought a variety of perspectives and backgrounds such as international students, transfer students, some involved with Greek life, others interested in theater and others involved in music/the marching band. Their majors varied and all students identified as female. Topics that were discussed frequently included: editing and/or deleting entries, the ethics surrounding editing/deleting entries, and what creating/editing/deleting entries entails; refining the purpose of WildWords; and discussing how to define the “Northwestern speech community”.


Here's what's new:

  • Conferrals
  • Dash Three
  • Delibs
  • The Dolphin Show
  • FBR
  • Fundy
  • Generals
  • ILC
  • Liftnbop
  • PARS
  • Persian American Representatives of Students
  • Pref Sheet
  • Prod Meeting
  • Shanley
  • Space
  • StuCo
  • Syntax Club
  • Waa-Mu
  • Wirtz Center
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