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The Oxford English dictionary is an amazing compilation of words, words and more words! New words have been accepted and made their debut into this ‘word bible’ of a book ever so often ! A word-lovers delight, a writers euphoria, a teachers fallback, it is a magical , mystical mumbo-jumbo of utterances made up of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections !!
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I replied to Mallika @ her blog — here’s a copy:
Hi Mallika 🙂
I quoted your post — and WordPress normally creates a “pingback” link (I think that’s what it’s called) when one blog post cites another blog post.
I appreciate what you wrote, and that’s why I quoted it.
Language is a fascinating phenomenon — and dictionaries do play an important role. Note, however, that usually people who work with languages (like myself 😉 ), consider dectionaries to be *descriptive* rather than *presecriptive* — which means they attempt to describe the natural language that exists in the natural world; in other words, they do *not* prescribe what is or isn’t language.
Thank you for your excellent writing!
As a little “nitpicking” tip, note that “Oxford English Dictionary” is the full title of the dictionary you referenced (so “Dictionary” ought to be capitalized also 😉 ).
🙂 Norbert
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