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by duckqlz 332 days ago
Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word!
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True

And it's a shame they used it incorrectly in the title - "embiggen" means "enlarge, make bigger", not "become bigger" which is the case with Power11

Ahhh okay I was so confused reading the title...I was like "Huh, what do they mean by they made a 'bit' larger? As in a byte...?"

Very confusing title...

ive just read thats actually become a word in dictionaries now
Can confirm that 'cromulent' is in the Oxford English Dictionary [0] ...

>> Acceptable, adequate, satisfactory.

>> Frequently used humorously or ironically in recognition of its origin as an invented word in the television programme The Simpsons (see quot. 1996).

As is 'embiggen', namely 'transitive. To make bigger or greater, to enlarge.'

[0] https://www.oed.com/dictionary/cromulent_adj?tab=meaning_and...