Logophiles are "devastated" after Dictionary.com deleted their logs of favorited words that they carefully crafted for years.

The deletions aren’t new. The words were expunged from editions of the Oxford Junior Dictionary published in 2007 and 2012. But dictionary makers don’t announce what they take out of their books.

It didn't exist, but there it was, on page 771 of the dictionary. And there it stayed until 1939, when an editor figured out what was happening and wrote this note declaring dord to be “&!

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But that doesn't upset the core of the language, which is pretty solid and pretty standard and has been for a long time. "Big changes aren't happening so fast as they were in the old days.

“Demure,” a word that went viral over the summer, has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 word of the year –– beating out other contenders like “brainrot,” “brat,” and “weird.” ...

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