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WORDS AND DICTIONARIES - Coggle Diagram
WORDS AND DICTIONARIES
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Nonces, mistakes, and mountweazels
Sometimes we find items in dictionaries that we might hesitate to call words – even if they do occur in the dictionary.
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Very extensive dictionaries like the OED sometimes also contain words that they identify as mistakes
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Mountweazels
Is a phony word that is inserted into a dictionary so
that its makers can identify lexicographic piracy.
Problem of complex words
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suffix -ness
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary contains the adjective bovine, but not the noun bovineness
On the one hand, dictionaries don’t list all the words of any language.
Dictionaries do not fix or codify the words of a language, but rather reflect the words that native speakers use.
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