An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book published this week.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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And this is why I will always side-eye anyone who uses the dictionary as a defence for their bullshit -isms.
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lolol wtf? this is simultaneously awful and hilarious. like, who does that? who just… deletes words from the dictionary?...
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SEEE. there are people working at the dictionary with agendas. i see you now.
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THE BOLD AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH SO FUCKING TRUE
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great, and here i was thinking i had all my innocence shattered already :C
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word.
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Prescriptive Linguists are the biggest dicks.
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