Talk:ginormous

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:

• ginormous: net.unix-wizards - Aug 18 1983, 4:10 am by Dave Lukes

  (don't forget, they page the OS, since it's trivial with all that hardware help, so they don't really mind if it's ginormous).

• Gynormous: soc.history - Nov 20 1992, 12:02 am by Francis Muir

  Chatsworth is Gynormous and quite splendid, and Paxton would have been quite familiar with large scale and deep pockets.

• gynormous: news.groups - Jul 6 1993, 12:54 pm by R o d Johnson

  Do you really want a group that includes Vic Damone, Jerry Vale, Frank Sinatra, Vaughn Monroe, Roy Rogers, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Henru Manicini, Mitch Miller, Lawrence Welk, Harry Belafonte, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Williams, Johnny Otis, Etta James, Eddie Fisher, Ezio Pinza, Elvis, the Troggs, the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Carpenters, Melanie, Bread, the Byrds, The Supremes, O. C. Smith, Engelbert Humperdinck, the Bonzo Dog Band, Doris Day, Wayne Newton, Sgt. Barry Sadler, The Kingston Trio, La Monte Young, B. B. King, Spooky Tooth, Sam "The Man" Taylor, the Bee Gees, Dusty Springfield, Johnny Cash, the Shirelles, The New Christy Minstrels, Tom Jones, Quicksilver, Eartha Kitt, Sandy Bull, Tim Hardin, Bob Dylan, Fairport Convention, the 101 Strings, the Tijuana Brass, the Velvet Underground, the Somthers Brothers, Perry Como, Pat Boone, Tony Bennett, "Hee Haw", Lloyd Price, Cleo Laine, Charlie Pride, Procol Harum and both Hank Williamses all in one gynormous Mongolian cluster-bleep dogpile free-for-all?

• most ginormous: alt.tv.animaniacs - Dec 7 1993, 10:30 pm by jelt...

  Macalester College: home of the world's most ginormous endowment... so why am I still up to my ears in debt?

• most gynormous: rec.crafts.textiles.quilting - Feb 24 1995, 10:28 am by Liz Lewis

  The blades are great - same quality, etc., but I specifically asked them to mail it by seamail and they mailed in in the most gynormous brown envelope airmail at a cost of $5.00US!

• ginormity: alt.native - Jun 15 2001, 7:39 am by Graeme Butler

  I am afraid to offend the ginormity of it all and find myself working in a tyre factory again...shudder...shudder.

• more ginormous: uk.food+drink.misc - Aug 22 2002, 5:50 pm by The Reids

  Which reminds me, i'd better go pick it before it gets even more ginormous.

Earliest uses on Google News:

• ginormous: Electronic Gaming Monthly (subscription) - 1 May 2005

  A magician never reveals his secrets, but it probably has something to do with that un-freaking-believably huge screen—after 15 years of staring at sub-3-inch handheld game screens, seeing the PSP’s ginormous 4.3-inch display will put you in a trance.

• gynormous: Circle (subscription), NY - 5 May 2005

  ... I suppose my analysis of 2005's Most Valuable-yet-Overlooked Senior resulted in a gynormous success (alright, alright, I know it's not too hard to ask one of ...

— Hippietrail 02:38, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Since doing the above work I've realized that Google News only keeps track of the most recent 2 months news. So this isn't the "earliest" at all but still illustrates how widespread "ginormous" is. — Hippietrail 08:00, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

I've been using it since I was a kid (in UK) so its been around at least 30 years ;) Never had anyone not understand it or correct me for using it, probably wouldn't use it in a piece of formal writing, but it's definitely a 'live' word in regular use by a ginormous crowd of people. Perhaps a useage comment can be added to keep everyone happy :p 20.133.0.14 08:16, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Not just British

Hmm. This page is currently locked, so I'll comment here instead: This word is prevalent in the U.S., so I doubt it should be called British slang (also note that Macalester College mentioned above is in the U.S. state of Minnesota). Mulad 07:27, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and see this: 'Ginormous' Tops Non-Dictionary Word List (Yahoo! News)

"The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries ... asked visitors to their Web site to submit their favorite words that aren't in the dictionary.

...

"In first place was 'ginormous' — bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous — followed by 'confuzzled' for confused and puzzled simultaneously, and 'whoot,' an exclamation of joy. A 'lingweenie' — a person incapable of making up new words — was tenth."

So it's pretty common... Mulad 07:46, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

I Agree. I'm new to the wiktionary, but I contribute heavily to the wikipedia. Isn't there supposed to be some notice about why a page is protected on the talk page? --DropDeadGorgias 22:07, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I can so no reason posted as to why it was protected so I've unprotected it until told otherwise.

I've also heard this word for as long as I can remember and I'm a 37-year-old Aussie. — Hippietrail 09:34, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Transformers movie

The first time I ever hear this word was in the Transformers movie when Jazz discribed Unicron. I am not sure if that was the first use of the word ever, but it is a earliest I can remember.

Well, that isn't the normal citation (printed) we're looking for, and it is predated by mere usenet references above. --Connel MacKenzie 00:57, 22 June 2007 (UTC)