Like this word “rap” no one did rap back then.. This word didn’t exist. Who made this up and how did it get added to dictionary?
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everyone and no one. Words dont get “approved”, when people start using a word, it gets added to the dictionary. The dictionary doesnt define the meaning of words, it describes how words are used. It reacts to the population.
You can make up a word right now if you want. If you get enough people to use it, it will make its way into a dictionary at some point.
On that point, I am trying to push the spelling Sepret as a sepret spelling of separate to not be confused with separate. I doubt it will hit a dictionary, but you never know.
Words get added to the dictionary by committee; new words come about all the time in either new discoveries, slang or fiction.
New words by discovery (invention, expirament, research) they are automatically added.
“Made up” words are then put to a few tests to see just how permenant they have become in culture…not permenant throughout future time but how widely the word has become.
I remember a lot of news stories from the Harry Potter book days(2002/2003) muggle was added to the dictionary……simpler times
Dictionaries are books. They’re written and edited by people. If the people who create a specific dictionary decide a word should be added to (or removed from) their dictionary they just do it. There’s nothing special about dictionaries.
I’d be interested to know when you think “back then” was exactly. The use of “rap” to describe the kind of music we associate it with today is actually an extension of the term for …
*(chiefly in African American use) a verbal display, esp. one intended to impress. Hence: improvised dialogue; banter, ‘spiel’; an instance of this.*
*…* which arose in the 1950s.
Words don’t get approved. And there isn’t a single dictionary. As soon as enough people start using a word for long enough, they start to get added to (some) dictionaries.
Rap in particular is a super old word. It didn’t get added to the dictionary recently. It just got a new meaning because people started using it to describe a music genre.
Publishing houses that publish dictionaries have editorial teams that constantly check and revise the content of the dictionary, and also see what words are used in daily language, and how their meanings change over time.
If a new word appears on the “radar”, they will observe, how widespread it is, and then decide if they should include it in the dictionary.
They also “weed out” words that are no longer in use and remove them from the dictionary – or at least from the “smaller” editions. Usually there is also a flagship dictionary which also contains old words and older uses.
There are multiple English dictionaries, each with their own standards for what words get added when. There is no single dictionary that determines what words are and are not part of the language.
Wen is skibbidotoilet being added ?
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