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When Dictionaries Drop Words

· 26 min · Episode 93

Episode When Dictionaries Drop Words

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We’ve discussed how words come to be entered in our dictionaries before, but today we’re going to talk about removing words from dictionaries. Which words get dropped? And why?

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

Transcript here.

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