Wikipedia has been compared to the Gold Standard, (Britannica), and been found to be in most cases just as accurate. Both encyclopedias contain errors, sometimes huge errors. Bottom line you need multiple sources, and don't trust any of them unduly.

On 11/5/2010 7:06 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
wikipedia is wholely made up by public hearsay.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Bob W<p...@web-options.com>  wrote:
I was checking definitions of "chimping" and Wikipedia claims it is and
acronym: "Chimp is an acronym for CHeck IMage Preview."
sounds like horseshit to me. (Does horseshit make a noise? whatever). I
reckon that's a back-formation that someone's come up with. Does wikipedia
provide any kind of evidence?

It also mentions
the "ooh, ooh, ahh, ahhh" connection.  I will continue to cite the latter.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Steven Desjardins<drd1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
New terminology might be a more appropriate phrase.  This typically
includes current words given new meanings.  There are very few totally
new words with a truly "short term" etymology.  Even completely new
physical properties like those that arise in fundamental physics are
usually named with current words given new meanings, e.g.,
strangeness.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:21 PM, paul stenquist
<pnstenqu...@comcast.net>  wrote:
On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:

paul stenquist wrote:

But it's not a new word, just a new usage.
I believe the original question was a little poorly worded and what
was really intended was more like "What words have been added to
your vocabulary because of digital photography?"

In other words, the words need not be new, but rather new to you,
and they need not be exclusive to digital photography as long as
digital photography was how you were introduced to them.
Perhaps. But my answer would still be none, and the premise would be
less interesting.
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