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Arts & Humanities > English Language Should unused words be removed from new editions of English dictionaries?

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There exists a secret world. One that exists beyond the concise business thesaurus and out of sight of word's spell check synonyms. It is a wild land of untamed words, where beautiful words mean horrible things: Limicolous-dwelling in mud or nasty sounding words with pleasant meanings-gnastration: purification ceremony before the wedding of two Christian virgins. In all my studies of linguistics in English and languages beyond, I have never found a collection of wacky and colorful words quite matching the line-up found in English. In George Orwell's, 1984, the English language is cut down ...

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