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Old 12-22-2004, 03:34 PM   #74 (permalink)
franzelneekburm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Poloboy
Not a word according to the Oxford English Dictionary. What dictionary have you found it in?
The OED is a descriptive work, it has no power to declare that some combination of phonemes is or is not a word. Odd as it sounds, popular usage is, in the end, the only thing that makes a word a word.
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