As CBS SportsLine says, "Urban Dictionary would probably make Noah Webster want to plummet off an unabridged overpass." Wordnik says, "Urban Dictionary is like Wordie's bad, older brother who
taught it how to smoke and swear." What everyon from the New York Times to Slate magazine is realizing is that Urban Dictionary isn't your grandma's dictionary and just about everyone is using
it. UrbanDictionary.com, a user-created online dictionary of modern slang, attracts nearly 200 million people a year and currently features more than 5 million user-defined words and phrases.
The Urban Dictionary 2012 Calendar culls from the popular Web site to give readers each day one of the funniest, wittiest, and most provocative phrases. More than 200,000 people receied Urban
Word of the Day via email. The Sydney Morning Herald says, "With...mentions in Playboy and on CNN, Urban Dictionary has grown into something of a legend." The London Evening Standard says,
"Urban Dictionary has become cult reading in many offices." MTV.com calls Urban Dictionary the "OED of our time." This is the fourth year for the calendar, which features all new words and
phrases.
