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PACE maintains a quizbowl lexicon for people interested in learning basic quizbowl terms and acronyms. The closest thing on this wiki can be found by using the Quizbowl lingo category below.

It used to be common for college teams to maintain their own quirky lexicon, but that practice started fading away around 2005. One of the few remaining examples of such lexica is from UCLA.

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-A '''lexicon''' is a dictionary-like group of terms and their definitions, written by a quizbowl club.  The term consists largely of quizbowl lingo, humorous practice incidents, and club in-jokes.  Despite this, most lexica attempt to provide their audience with their club's brand of quizbowl humor, and are often successful.
+[[PACE]] maintains a [http://www.pace-nsc.org/pace-quizbowl-lexicon/ quizbowl lexicon] for people interested in learning basic quizbowl terms and acronyms. The closest thing on this wiki can be found by using the Quizbowl lingo category below.
-The practice of writing lexica is generally considered to have been started by [[Maryland]].  Many imitations soon followed, and almost every mid-90s quizbowl team of significance had at least a poor imitation of a lexicon.  Since that time, lexicon writing has been slowly dying out.
+It used to be common for college teams to maintain their own quirky lexicon, but that practice started fading away around 2005. One of the few remaining examples of such lexica is from [http://quizbowl.bol.ucla.edu/lexicon/oldlexicon2.html UCLA].
-[[David Hamilton]]'s classic guide to lexica, last updated in November 2000, may be found [http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/maqt/maqt/lexreview.html here].
+[[Category: Quizbowl lingo]]
-[[Matt Weiner]] has advocated that [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3612 more teams should have lexica].
-== List of currently available lexica ==
-Many of these lexica have not been updated in quite some time, and so may read rather dated.  Some of these teams don't even exist anymore, but their lexica still do.  Some clubs, such as [[Western Ontario]], are known to have once had lexica, but those lexica cannot be currently found.
-*[http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/lexicon.html Berkeley] plus Bonus Material ( [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/302010.html 30-20-10 questions on Spring 2001 club members])
-*[http://people.bu.edu/qbowl/lexicon.html Boston University club constitution]
-*[http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/aqt/lexicon.html Bowling Green] (pre-2004)
-*[http://people.brandeis.edu/~quizteam/glossary.html Brandeis]
-*[http://quizbowl.caltech.edu/jargon.html Caltech]
-*[http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/college-bowl/lexicon.html Carnegie Mellon]
-*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cbowl/Lexicon.htm Columbia] (note: no actual definitions provided)
-*[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cbowl/lexicon.html Dartmouth new] (note: currently under construction) and [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cbowl/oldsite/evil.html old] plus Bonus Material ([http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cbowl/oldsite/disasters.html list of travel disasters])
-*[http://udel.edu/stu-org/acc/enemies/ Delaware enemies list] and [http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/acc/enemies/retired.html retired items on that list]
-*[http://www.depauw.edu/student/orgs/ducks/quotes_main.htm Depauw list of humorous quotes and negs]
-*[http://www.duke.edu/~apg/Lexicon.htm Duke]
-*[http://students.emory.edu/ACADEMICTEAM/fund.html Emory]
-*[http://www.union.ufl.edu/collegebowl/lexicon.asp Florida]
-*[http://studentorgs.gwu.edu/gwqt/lore/lexicon/ George Washington pre-2005] and [http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia/lex.html pre-2001] plus Bonus Material ([http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia/meow.html a history of the Meow phenomenon])
-*[https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ro/www/AcademicBuzzerTeam/lexicon.html Illinois]
-*[http://www.uiowa.edu/~quizbowl/lexicon/index.html Iowa]
-*[http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/quiz/quotes.php Iowa State list of humorous quotes]
-*[http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/maqt/lexicon.html Maryland]
-*[http://www.msu.edu/~cbowl/lexicon.html Michigan State]
-*[http://web.mst.edu/~cbowl/quotes.html Missouri S&T list of humorous quotes] plus Bonus Material ([http://web.mst.edu/~cbowl/jason.html the Jason Mueller page])
-*[http://www.ou.edu/student/okacf/lexicon.html Oklahoma]
-*[http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/lexicon.html Ottawa]
-*[http://users.ox.ac.uk/~quiz/fun/dict1.shtml Oxford University] plus [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~quiz/fun/index.shtml Bonus Material]
-*[http://www.princeton.edu/~cbowl/lexicon.html Princeton]
-*[http://sa.rochester.edu/thelion/lexicon.html Rochester]
-*[http://www.geocities.com/bristlesage/lexicon.html Scripps]
-*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/lexicon.html Stanford]
-*[http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/collegebowl/lexicon.html Swarthmore post-1998?] and [http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/collegebowl/retired.html pre-1998?]
-*[http://www.tulane.edu/~tulcolb/lexicon.htm Tulane]
-*[http://quizbowl.bol.ucla.edu/lexicon/index.html UCLA post-2008] and [http://quizbowl.bol.ucla.edu/lexicon/oldlexicon.html pre-2008]
-*[http://www-scf.usc.edu/~quizbowl/qq5.html USC] (well, okay, it's the only thing close to an actual lexicon)
-*[http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/college_bowl/Lexicon%20Censored.html Vanderbilt Censored] and [http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/college_bowl/Lexicon%20Uncensored.html Uncensored]
-*[http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/maqt/maqt/olduvalex.html Virginia old] and [http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/maqt/maqt/uvaclassiclex.html classic]
-*[http://www.academic.org.vt.edu/about/lexicon.php Virginia Tech newer] and [http://www.academic.org.vt.edu/about/lexicon-old.php older] plus Bonus Material ([http://www.academic.org.vt.edu/about/lexicon-speed.php driving stories and tips])
-*[http://www.geocities.com/wmquizbowl/lexicon William and Mary] (note: contains no actual content)
-*[http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/cbowl/lexicon.html Williams] (note: under construction)
-*[http://sugroups.wustl.edu/~collbowl/lexicon.html WUSTL]
-[[Category: Quizbowl lingo]] [[Category: Quizbowl on the internets]]
 [[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]

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