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Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
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The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
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'Queerbaiting' & Other LGBTQ+ Terms Were Just Added to the Dictionary
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Can English unite a divided America? A Mexican American scholar weighs in
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