And a happy Christmas to one and all.

Except of course those woeful individuals who exercised their right to free speech by dumping on the printed version of the site (Dictionary of Playground Slang) at Amazon UK. If any of you have a few minutes to spare we'd really appreciate your nipping over to the site and giving us a more balanced review.... pretty please??

Moving on, the ODPS has had a couple of bursts of publicity in the UK and Australia lately which have produced several hundred new words or so all of which have been dutifully uploaded - but of course as always we still need more so if your friends and relatives haven't been bored to buggery by repeated requests for old or new slang words then now is the time to do it. If you don't I'll have to spend time with my family over Xmas and that'll never do!

What else is new. Well not a lot really. You'll see we added a section of Rugby Songs, chants and similar called 'Hymns and Arias'. If you have alternate words, if you have more songs, if you'd like to record MP3's of yourself (and friends?) singing a few choice verses... send them on in and we'll load them up!!

We're also in the process of working out a few other ideas for the site such as a mailing list in addition to the proposed forums. If anyone likes the idea of a mailing list please let me know and I'll set one up. We were thinking of including, for example, all the words that come in without meanings or with obscure references to meanings we can't get to grips with. This way you can have a direct input into the content of the site.

I think that'll do for now. Please go give us a decent review at Amazon UK and if we don't see you for a week or two... well have a safe and pleasant holiday over Xmas and the New Year.