What is "lingo"

Lingo \Lin"go\ (l[i^][ng]"g[-o]), n. [L. lingua tongue, language. See Lingual.] Language; speech; dialect. [Slang]

"foreign speech," 1650s, possibly a corrupt form of lingua franca (q.v.), or from Provençal lingo "language, tongue," from Old Provençal lenga, from Latin lingua "tongue" (see lingual).

n. Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group or region; jargon or a dialect.

1. n. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: cant, jargon, slang, argot, patois, vernacular]

2. [also: lingoes (pl)]

Lingo is a verbose object-oriented (OO) scripting language developed by John H. Thompson for use in Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director). Lingo is used to develop desktop application software, interactive kiosks, CD-ROMs and Adobe Shockwave content.

Lingo is the primary programming language on the Adobe Shockwave platform, which dominated the interactive multimedia product market during the 1990s. Various graphic adventure games were developed with Lingo during the 1990s, including The Journeyman Project, Total Distortion, Mia's Language Adventure, Mia's Science Adventure, and the Didi & Ditto series. Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Lingo, and published on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com.

Lingo can be used to build user interfaces, to manipulate raster graphics, vector graphics and 3D computer graphics, and other data processing tasks. Lingo supports specialized syntax for image processing and 3D object manipulation. 3D meshes can also be created on the fly using Lingo.

Lingo is an American television game show with multiple international adaptations. Three Lingo series have aired in the United States. The first was aired in daily syndication from September 28, 1987 until March 25, 1988, and taped at BCTV in Burnaby, British Columbia. A revival/reboot of the series debuted on Game Show Network (GSN) on August 5, 2002 and ran for a total of six seasons, ending in 2007. A slightly reworked version of the 2002 series debuted on GSN on June 6, 2011 and ended its run on August 1 of the same year.

The show's format combined the structure of the game of chance known as bingo with a word guessing game; contestants took turns guessing words and tried to guess enough of them to fill in enough spaces on a five-by-five card to form a line.

Lingo is the third studio album recorded by Australian band Gang Gajang. It was released in 1994 on RooART and distributed by Warner Music Australia.

Lingo is a Quebec game show that ran for 439 episodes on Radio-Canada, from 1998 to 2001. It was hosted by longtime actor and radio/TV host Paul Houde.

Lingo is a Dutch television game show based on the North American format of the same name. Each episode involves two teams of two people trying to guess and spell words. The amount of letters to guess varies from 5 to 8 (depending on the round).

On July 30, 2014, it was announced that Lingo would stop producing new episodes from September 2014 due to declining ratings.

Lingo, a contraction of language, often refers to jargon.

Lingo may also refer to:

LINGO is a mathematical modeling language designed for formulating and solving optimization problems, including linear, integer, and nonlinear programming problems.

Lingo is a VoIP ( Voice over IP) provider in the United States. It offers local and long distance calls anywhere in the U.S., to Canada, and to Western Europe, plus over 25 calling features. Lingo has been the subject of consumer complaints and negative reviews reporting refusal to honor refunds and deteriorating quality.

Lingo has also been very commonly accused of continuing to charge former customers for accounts that have been cancelled.

Lingo markets prepaid annual calling where customers pay for a whole year in advance, but the bankruptcy of parent Primus Telecom may raise questions about the company's ability to provide a whole year of service. The Better Business Bureau grades Primus a "D+" with no accreditation; the D+ rating is among the lowest possible, and is based on the number of "unresolved" complaints against the company, and the company's failure even to respond to those complaints.

Lingo was a short lived British game show that originally aired as a regional programme for Central in 1987, then it became networked for all ITV regions in 1988.

The Thames series was produced to fill the summer gap in the ITV schedule in 1988 while long-running police drama The Bill was off air for the year. Lingo became a popular programme with ITV viewers, and was expected to return the following year. At the end of the gap, The Bill was returned to the schedule as normal, but from here, The Bill was broadcast continually without a series break; as a result, Lingo was dropped after just one series, also in part due to ITV launching another popular game show in Wheel of Fortune that year.

The Scottish surname Lingo is derived from the lands of Lingoch in the parish of Carnbee, Fife, Scotland. The earliest known recorded use of the surname in Scotland is by Ulf de Lingoch, who witnessed a charter granted in the early 13th century.

The Lingo estate lands, located on Ling Burn near the village of Carnbee in the East Neuk of Fife, northwest of Pittenweem, belonged to the Monastery of Pittenweem prior to 1534, and were partly in possession of the Borthwicks of Lingo from 1534 until 1671, after which date they were held by the Hamiltons of Kilbrackmont until 1739, when they were purchased by Thomas Dalyell, a descendant of the Dalyells of Binns; in 1895 they were held by Ralph Dalyell, Esquire. Lingo House, the seat of the ancient estate, is located about halfway between St. Andrews and Pittenweem, situated about a mile to the north of the B940 road, approximately 2 miles east of its junction with the A915 (St. Andrews to Largo).

The first element of the name may be from Scottish Gaelic ling- 'leap, rush', possibly referring to the rapid Lathockar Burn on Lingo's northwest boundary and with a large waterfall in its course. It may otherwise be a rare loan word from Scots into Gaelic, ling ' heather'. The second element is the Gaelic place name suffix -och, generally -ach in modern Gaelic and commonly reduced to -o in Fife place names. Down through the centuries, the ancient pronunciation and spelling of Lingoch was shortened to Lingo, and that form has been in use since at least the 17th century, with some variations. The surname is occasionally found spelled Lingoe and Lingow, and has at times been confused with Ling, Linge, and Lingon.

The Lingo surname is included in a list of septs of Clan Graham provided by the 7th Duke of Montrose, late Chief of all the Grahams. Enquiry of the Chief was made, but to date no explanation has been forthcoming for how the surname came to be on the list. Perhaps the Grahams at some time held the Lingoch estate, and thus the family residing on the estate came under the influence of Clan Graham and was deemed a sept. A Graham clan history states that Lingo is a cadet line of the Grahams of Knockdolian in Carrick descended from Walter, youngest son of Sir William de Graham and the Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III, but does not provide other details. Other origins have been conjectured for this surname, including Italian by way of Ireland, and French, but no other origin has been satisfactorily documented, and the presence of Lingoes in America long before the American Revolution, their close alliance with settlers of predominantly British stock, and the frequent bestowal of such archetypal Scottish names as James Stuart Lingo, strongly suggest that some, at least, of the American Lingo families were of British origin.

The earliest certain record of the Lingo surname in the New World that has been documented is that of Elizabeth Lingoe marrying Edwards Dunstan on 12 May 1661 in Hungar's Parish in Northampton County, Virginia, on the southern part of the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia ("DelMarVa") peninsula. A number of Lingo families lived on the Delmarva Peninsula in the early colonial period, and Lingoes were in that county at least through 1733. In the early 19th century, several Lingo families migrated westward into Ohio and southward into the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri, and eventually further out, and descendants are now found across the United States.