Aug 26, 2011

Words to delete from the dictionary?

Just sharing an article I found very interesting :)
Well yes, you got me. It's a Friday evening and I am in Bali- only a 20 minutes drive away from the most happening club in the island, just got this month's pay check and yet I am here browsing through the world of words in my room ;p how lame and sad ha!
Well maybe they should delete those words to ; both lame and sad. You don't exist. Blah

From : The hotword;
These words may be removed from some dictionaries — find out why, and if you agree
No matter how clever, revolutionary, or poignant, the passage of time can render anything obsolete – even words.
Recently, researchers for the  Collins Dictionary released a list of words, such as charabanc and aerodrome, that are used so rarely that they are considered obsolete, and will no longer be included in smaller print dictionaries.
The following are among the words that the Collins lexicographers have identified. How many of these have you heard before, and do any of them deserve a second chance?
Aerodrome 
Alienism 
Bever 
Brabble 
Charabanc 
Deliciate
Frigorific 
Supererogate 
Younker 

An online dictionary obviously doesn’t face the same  space dilemmas as its paper cousin, but an argument could be made that if a word is rarely used or searched for, it may not matter if it is in the dictionary or not. 

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