Re: Err......not to be a know it all
"so are you a tautologist or something since you're "more than a little" interested in this stuff? or is it your personal interest in writing in general that fuels such concerns."
Neither. I just like words.
"i was going to use the 'ol webster to prove how easy it would have been to prove its a word ..."
Hundreds of words are made from scratch every day. And hundreds more are fashioned from existing words and phrases. Dictionaries, by definition, lag far behind in keeping track of production.
For example, everyone here knows what "donk" means, but we won't find our definition in Webster's.
Is the poker version of "donk" a word?
Tommy
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