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Beware–your Oxford English Dictionary is missing thousands of words!
It has been revealed that former OED editor, the late Robert Burchfield secretly deleted thousands of words that he deemed too “foreign” and placed the blame on other editors. Allison Flood at The Guardian dispels the rumors.
...moreThe Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is “omnishambles,” while the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year is…”GIF.”
We can’t even agree on how to pronounce GIF!
The British runners-up underscore our cultural differences as well; “mummy porn,” for example, sounds a little stranger to the Yankee ear than it probably did to the OED judges.
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