Listen "Leave Work Now! Episode 71: How do new words get into the dictionary?"
Episode Synopsis
We talk with Joshua Pendragon, an independent researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary, about how new words are added to the dictionary, the challenges of researching obscure words, and the evolving nature of language.
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