Little Green Footballs Dictionary

OK, admins, this is where the real work begins. Over the last year or two, I’ve been emailed many many suggestions by various people wanting me to make changes to the LGF Dictionary. The easy and simple suggestions, I quickly implemented. The ridiculous suggestions, I swiftly rejected. But there was a third category: valid and/or interesting suggestions that would take some time to research and write. All of those in the third category I set aside to deal with “later.”

Well, “later” is now.

So here’s what I’m going to do:

For each suggestion, I’m going to make a post entitled “Task #1,” “Task #2,” and so on, in which I will paste the reader’s email, and perhaps additional explanation from me if necessary. There will be about 20 short posts in a row like this.

Your job as editors will be to, whenever you feel like it, choose one of these suggestions, and implement it in the dictionary. And by “implement” I mean whatever that particular “task” calls for: add a new word, rewrite a definition, research and provide a link for the “first usage,” and so on.

When you start a particular task, you should make a comment on that thread saying, “I’ll do this one,” or whatever. When you’ve completed each task, you can then make another comment on the thread, saying “I’ve done this one.”

Eventually, for those tasks that have been completed, we can then either make the entire relevant post be “strikethru,” or perhaps delete each post entirely when it’s done.

Clear? So brace yourselves: Here come 20 or so posts containing “assignments” for all of you.

If you have any questions about all this, drop a comment on this thread.