Readers Recommend has
some terminology that may be strange to newbies. So here
is a short glossary of terms used by bloggers.
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A-Z List / n
the official list of all songs that have made the A
List in Readers Recommend. Please note it is the A
to Zed List, not the A to Zee List. Readers
Recommend, after all, is British, not American,
thank you very much! Find it
here at RR
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Abergavenny / n -
a song that you mention as being
on-topic, but don't like enough to recommend, only
to discover to your horror that it's sitting pretty
in the following week's playlist. See
Songs Named After Towns.
(thanks to Mark68 for the definition - the term was
originally coined by DaddyPig)
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asafarae
(sometimes spelled aesafarae) - pronounced ass
fairy / n
a phrase coined by Lambretinha
(created by typing random letters into the computer)
to describe a song that an RRer nominates over and
over again, because they like it so much and it
seems to them to fit perfectly for so many subjects.
(thanks to steenbeck for the definition)
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buke / byook / v
- to express
disapproval, criticize,
reprimand. A shortened form of the verb "rebuke" which came
about from an exchange in the blog on
Songs About the Future.
An exchange between
ToffeeBoy and Gremlinfc
led to a rebuke. This
led Tincanman to say
that "you have to be
buked before you can be
rebuked". Gremlinfc then
became the first RRer to
officially "buke"
someone. (Thanks to
ToffeeBoy for
researching this and
suggesting its
inclusion.)
Collabo /kəlab'o/
n the Spotify
Playlist for the current topic which readers can
join and contribute to.
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dond /dond/ v second as in "I second that nomination" - ORIGIN - a
corruption of the word second that occurred when a
Readers Recommend blogger misspelled the word
"second" as "sedond" See a short history
here on the Spill
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DropBox
n an online file sharing and file backup
resource. A communal DropBox for Readers Recommend
was set up by tincanman. Contact him to find out how
to join.
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Marconium n the website you are on right now,
formally known as Readers Recommend: The Complete
Index. - ORIGIN - Chris7572 suggested calling it the
Marconium and amazingly, it stuck! Named after yours
truly, Marconius7.
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Spill
n properly known as The Spill, formerly the
Overspill Blog, The Spill is a blog created and
maintained by BlimpyMcFlah to which Readers
Recommend afficianados can contribute. It was
created to accommodate conversations about music and
the RR community that goes beyond thee RR mandate of
suggesting songs for the Readers Recommend
playlists.
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Spotify / n a Swedish online music service
similar to iTunes but which lets you create
playlists which you can play on your computer.
The playlists are streamed, so you cannot copy a
song to your iPod or other device unless you
purchase the song. Check out more on
Wikipedia or visit the
Spotify website. Note that the service is
not available in all countries. If not available where you live, you can use a workaround explained on
this page. (Thanks to tincanman for that!)
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TOFF n Ten O'Clock Feeding
Frenzy - each new topic blog is posted and opened
for comments at 10 PM London time. Everyone tries to
get their suggestions in quickly before they are
beat out by other players. This mad scramble to be
first with a song nomination is called the Ten
O'Clock Feeding Frenzy.
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zedded / past
participle of zed v on the A-Z List. Please note
that a song on the A-Z List is zedded, not zeed. RR
as noted earlier, is British, not American.
