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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3116414, member: 19463"]New words and new uses for old ones entered the language every year since the language began. The example in this link was used in 1992 but more recently. </p><p>blob:<a href="http://time.com/3cd7fbf8-bb4a-4a94-bb96-004c9c42ea70" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://time.com/3cd7fbf8-bb4a-4a94-bb96-004c9c42ea70" rel="nofollow">http://time.com/3cd7fbf8-bb4a-4a94-bb96-004c9c42ea70</a></p><p>The Oxford Unabridged Dictionary stopped publishing a hardcopy version because it was ridiculously huge. Some words die and are rarely used (you have to be a certain age to know Ack-Ack gun). Some words or new uses are specifically intended to talk over someone while others are intended to identify the 'in crowd'. Ask Deacon Ray if he knows Shibboleth as used in the Bible but expect a different answer if the person asked is a computer nerd. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are those whose hobby is language. I wonder who invented VF and who came first XF or EF. Does it bother anyone when we get a new expert posting here that thinks obverse is the back side? I guess we adapted the general term by adding 'coin'. definition 2</p><p><a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Op" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Op" rel="nofollow">https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Op</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3116414, member: 19463"]New words and new uses for old ones entered the language every year since the language began. The example in this link was used in 1992 but more recently. blob:[url]http://time.com/3cd7fbf8-bb4a-4a94-bb96-004c9c42ea70[/url] The Oxford Unabridged Dictionary stopped publishing a hardcopy version because it was ridiculously huge. Some words die and are rarely used (you have to be a certain age to know Ack-Ack gun). Some words or new uses are specifically intended to talk over someone while others are intended to identify the 'in crowd'. Ask Deacon Ray if he knows Shibboleth as used in the Bible but expect a different answer if the person asked is a computer nerd. There are those whose hobby is language. I wonder who invented VF and who came first XF or EF. Does it bother anyone when we get a new expert posting here that thinks obverse is the back side? I guess we adapted the general term by adding 'coin'. definition 2 [url]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Op[/url][/QUOTE]
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