How Dictionaries Shape the Language

Dave Wilton, Thursday, January 15, 2009

Barbara Wallraff over at theatlantic.com comments on the word hinky and why it is or isn’t in various dictionaries. This is pretty much old hat for most of us here at wordorigins.org, but her comment at the end about Webster’s New World Dictionary as the standard for the Associated Press is notable.

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