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I remembered a word used on a game show and decided I would check it out on Google because my Microsoft spell checker was unable to get its tits around the word ‘pabble’ properly. The word IS ‘pabble’, it’s a real word and I remembered it. At least that’s what I believed until several of the worlds most frequently used spell checkers started fucking with my brain and telling me they had never heard of it.

Of all the dictionaries, of all the languages in the world that I frequently rely on, are the dictionaries supplied by Google and Microsoft.  I bet you do too, huh? You get stuck for how to spell a word and you type in to MS Word and “Hey Presto!” MS Word just pumps out your correctly spelled word after you spell check it.

Well not always.  Was I frustrated when even Google couldn’t find the word ‘pabble’?  Yes I was. If Microsoft fails you think, well that’s par for the course. When Google fails, you think OK, there is no commercial reason to put a page ranking on the word ‘pabble’, so it is not going to show up. What do you do when Google fails? When all else fails, go to Wikipedia!

Wiki is like an internet commando on a search and rescue mission! If your information has been hijacked and kept captive some where, Wiki sharpens its bayonet, scouts the territory out and skewers it for you! Wiki is to words what a big game hunter is frightened starving carnivorous tigers, or so I thought.

The trouble was even Wikipedia had no reference to ‘pabble’.

What was I going to do? My dear word pabble needed rescuing; I was the man that was going to do it!

Stephen Fry, being the self acclaimed, publicly proclaimed queer beacon of intellectuality and hilarity immediately came to mind. The very brainy and very gay Stephen Fry hosts a fun reverse brainy game show called ‘Qi’ on the BBC. Qi stands for Quite Interesting and the web site is www.qi.com.  I posed the question on a forum on Qi, and eventually some one on there had access to the Oxford English Dictionary online (usually costs about 10 dollars per month to use) and they found a reliable reference for me to use in Wikipedia!

I promptly marched right back to www.Wikipedia.org, joined the site as a registered contributor and put pabble in to the pages of web history at last!

Well, not quite.

They said that pabble was not “quite interesting” enough to keep in the encyclopaedia BUT (Hurrah!) they said it would be given a nice home at the next door neighbour’s house, otherwise known as Wiktionary!

Pabble actually means the noise that boiling liquids make, say like porridge bubbling on the stove!

Listen to Stephen Fry’s podgram’s on iTunes under comedy. If you can download Qi from on the BBC iPlayer, its worth it because it’s great. Mr Fry may be nerdy and funny but not as nerdy as Skip and Drew on www.gayscifinerds.co.uk.  Skip and Drew Love the Mopodshow, we stay moist between episodes!