Lexicographers Create Lists of Endangered Words
Posted on August 23, 2011
The Guardian reports that lexicographers at Collins Dictinary have compiled a list of words that are in danger of completely falling out of use. Seldom used words are removed periodically from Collins smaller dictionaries. Here are a few of the words.
Collins Dictionary does not remove the endangered words from its largest dictionary because they may be useful to historians or they could come back into fashion.
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