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Oxford took note of media coverage given to Levi’s new word, as well as a personal request and tweet by Canadian actor William Shatner, who played Capt. James T. Kirk in the Star Trek series, to add the word to its dictionary.

The word levidrome needs to evolve into ordinary usage, Oxford says. School children in B.C. and Ontario have already started doing that, according to the boy’s father.

“Then all we do is wait and hope people keep using your word,” Juganaru says in the video. “We have a list of all the words we want to keep an eye on and levidrome is on that list.

“In a year or so, if lots of people are still using your word, it might well get into our dictionary.”

Budd, an oral historian, had originally proposed the word to dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

Told the word had to be in regular use, the family created a video explaining the word and its origin and posted it to YouTube.

Levidrome has already been added to the crowd-sourced online Urban Dictionary, which began in 1999 as a dictionary of slang words and phrases. On Wednesday, it was included in Merriam-Webster’s online “open dictionary” of new words and slang.

A palindrome describes a word that can be spelled backwards or forwards, such as noon, civic or radar. The word emordnilap — palindrome backward — is in competition with levidrome, as it has been long suggested to describe words that spell a different word backwards, but it does not appear in the Oxford or Merriam-Webster dictionaries.