Save the Words

Though once upon a time Noah Webster wrote a dictionary to reflect the ever growing and changing language of American English, the Oxford English Dictionary does regularly update their logs to include such words as “bootylicious” and “MILF” – terms definitely in everyday use but not requiring etymological analysis. Dictionaries, also, remove words that have been discontinued by the collective unconscious. But a band of dedicated logophiles is making it their business to protect endangered words.