Start and Finish Dates: Friday the 3rd of February 2012 ends midday on Monday the 13th of February 2012.

All proceeds is treated as a donation to I CAN, the children’s communication charity.

More information will be published nearer to the start date.

Best of luck,

The Adopt a word Team

Thank you to everyone that got involved in the competition. Your amazing support has helped raise funds for children with communication difficulties.

I remember a story a friend told me about their son making up a vehicle as part of their imaginative role play and telling their mum they’d made a ‘slatenite’.  Very puzzling. When she asked him about it he told her that he had got the word from a song; “won’t you drive my sleigh tonight”!  A great example of a child not knowing a word, but using it anyway.

Why not enjoy some of this fun yourself by making up a word and adopting it to be your own?  Maybe you have a funny story about a word your family have adopted after a child created it, or maybe you have your own word you love to use when the existing words we have just don’t fit the bill!  Take the opportunity to make that word yours, and try out our new Adopt a Word feature.  Go to the Adopt a Word website and add your own word to the dictionary today!

“Click here for a chance to win the incredible Amazon Kindl e-book reader, complete with 6” screen and WIFI

To enter our competition to win an incredible Kindle e-book reader, all you have to do is invent and define a word, then adopt it. 

Competition ends midnight on Monday the 19th of December 2011.

The winner will be the author of the word that receives the most votes.

Adopting a word costs £15 which is treated as a donation to I CAN, the children’s communication charity.

Best of luck,

The Adopt a word Team

I CAN want to give you the chance to win your word for free with a new, fantastic competition. We want you to come up with the most original and interesting reason for adopting a word. The most original reason will be picked by an I CAN judging panel, and the winner will be given their choice of word (or an alternative available word) free for a whole year. Entering the competition is simple.

1)      Tell us what word you would adopt and why on the Adopt a Word Facebook page (in about 100 words). http://www.facebook.com/adoptaword

Please note, you will need to ‘like’ the page before being able to upload your entry onto the wall. The best reason will win their choice of available word for free for a whole year!

2)      The judging panel will take into account the amount of people who ‘like’ your reason, so why don’t you tag yourself in the post, to encourage all your Facebook friends to check out your entry.

3)      The competition starts on 1st November and ends at 1pm on 30^th November. You will be informed within 10 working days whether your entry has been successful. I CAN will contact you to tell you whether you have won via direct message on Facebook.

If you want to receive more updates and news on Adopt a Word, send us an email at info@adoptaword.com

For more information and to Adopt a Word, please click here

For more information on I CAN, please go to www.ican.org.uk

Follow Adopt a Word on Facebook and Twitter:  http://www.facebook.com/adoptaword

www.twitter.com/adoptaword or @adoptaword

And a relationship it has been, just like any other. It can make you happy, it can make you laugh. You exchange information, and express your hopes, dreams and desires. Sometimes you react too quickly, and say something you don’t mean, then twitter will be angry and bite back with a snap. But at the end of the day it is always there for you, whether you’re bored or just up for a chat. These are the things I have loved and learnt from twitter.

Aside from being an unfairly entertaining and fascinatingly wordy job, I learnt how twitter and social media help charities and more specifically Adopt a Word. I CAN Charity is all about communication. So what better place to have an entrenched presence than in the most crucial hub of modern communication? @adoptaword is not only about attracting adoptions (although they are always welcome), but it gives the fundraising initiative a personality, a voice, to show followers how genuine our commitment is to this vital cause. If we cannot and do not communicate with our supporters – what kind of communication charity would we be? I have been fortunate enough to be that voice, that personality, and I have been astonished at the perpetual support I have received from my twitter friends. Retweets, Mentions, #CharityTuesdays and #FollowFridays are just a few of the ways that I realised how much people want to get involved, how much people love words and how interaction keeps our cause going.

Another word enthusiast will be taking over for a few weeks, but I hope through the future I CAN will be able to keep tweeting for @adoptaword and all its followers #thankyou #goodbye.