The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries got more than 3,000 entries when they asked visitors to their Web site to submit their favorite words that aren't in the dictionary.

Arthur Bicknell, a spokesman for the Springfield-based dictionary publisher, admited, "It was a lot of fun. We weren't expecting so many. They only had two weeks."

Some of the proposed words gained multiple submissions so the editors came up with an unofficial Top 10 list.

First place went to "ginormous" - bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous - followed by "confuzzled" for confused and puzzled simultaneously, and "whoot," an exclamation of joy. A "lingweenie" - a person incapable of making up new words - placed 10th.

Besides the Top Ten, inspired Mary Poppins fans submitted "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," which happens to be in the Oxford English Dictionary. Bicknell also reported "a number of Harry Potterisms" among the entries.

"We will have to see about those," he said.