The Statto Dictionary
The Statto Dictionary SuperConcise DictionaryPlus, one of the absurd numbers of editions, upgrades and re-releases of The Statto Dictionary
The Statto Dictionary has the honour of being the publication that created The Statto-JTA Publishing Corporation. It is therefore the oldest publication in the Statto-JTA Archives, dating back to the hallowed days of Year 8.
At its peak in 1999, with at least 123 entries, it was a whopping and unwieldy amalgamation of different editions. Now, it exists for popular consumption in a low-fat online form.
History
Originally named The Statto and John Concise English Dictionary, it was conceived and written during an AGS school trip to Arthog in Wales. It was inspired by a teacher called Dr Ehlers, who, unable to think of any other achievements during the week at Arthog, awarded Statto the prize for ‘only person to call a spade a primitive human-operated soil moving device’. This was soon obfuscated further, resulting in “primitive humanoid-operated soil particulate realignment device”, and became the first definition in the first publication of the Corporation’s history.
The first edition, scibbled hastily in pencil on cheap A4 paper, was soon superceded with all manner of new editions, including the Advanced God Edition, HyperAdvanced Revised Edition and an add-on pack known as the SuperAdvanced DictionaryPlus, all carefully word-processed and printed on the AGS Library printers.
After the DictionaryPlus, the height of the mayhem was reached (numerically at least) with an omnibus edition, the HyperAdvanced God EditionPlus, combining all the previous works into one bumper pack of 123 definitions.
The Dictionary then went into a steady decline, paper copies being archived safely away from potential readers and all knowledge of the embarassing behemoth being denied.
It was finally resurrected on August 2nd 2002 for its final mission: selected definitions were put online at the now-defunct www.statto-jtapublishingco.fsnet.co.uk. These select few are now still able to be viewed at ktab.co.uk (www.ktab.co.uk/dictionary).