Words come and go over time. But at some point, someone somewhere coins a word.
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How does that word blossom from a few people using it, to being a word on everyone’s tongue and widely-used, to the extent of earning a spot in the dictionary?
Do the editors sit around and decide on their own? Do they accept input from the general public, i.e., people make nominations for new entries?
How about the opposite, when it comes to removing words?
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I remember when I was a kid I saw and TV ad that was basically some brand trying to create a new word to put on the dictionary. I dont recall which word was it but I remember them being successfull. They were just asking for the people to sign a petition proving the word was real and had real meaning. They eventually got a big number of signatures and it eventually ended up on the dictionary. This was in my country tho (Portugal), might have a different process in other countries.
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