Shouldn't there be a word...? The holes in our languge and the never-ending search for words to fill them.

This article discusses an excerpt from the book "Word Fugitives," by Barbara Wallraff. The beginning of the article pokes fun at how much fun it would be to be the one to make all the words in the dictionary. The Book of Saint Albans was the first dictionary printed in 1486 however the first compreh...

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Publicado en:American Scholar Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 76 - 88
Autor principal: Wallraff, Barbara
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Publicado: Phi Beta Kappa Society Spring2006
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