The Big Word Project is a website created by Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe, two Masters students from the University of Ulster, Belfast,Northern Ireland. [2] Launched on February 25, 2008, the project is aimed at redefining the Englishdictionary with websites. Users can buy a word from a list of over 170,000 at $1 a letter and that word is then permanently linked to a URL of their choice.
In its first week, the project saw thousands of visitors and added more than 2,000 words, thanks largely to a glowing review by the popular blog Daring Fireball.[3][4]But growth cooled; seven weeks after launch, the site stood at 2,345 words.[5] However, an April 21 article inWIRED magazine[6] renewed interest, and on May 22, the word count passed 5,000.[7] As of 29 January 2010, the count was 7,025.[8]
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