Tag: Millionth English Word Jacqueline Susann Oxford English Dictionary Merriam-Webster

A Word With You, Please. The Millionth Word.

On June 10, 2009 at 10:22AM in Stratford-on-Avon in the U.K. a new English word was born.“No one said nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ a baby” to me, so at precisely the same time in Los Angeles, 2:22AM, I was asleep with not even a duffel bag at bedside in case I needed to rush to the natal ward, catch this neologism as it exited the womb, and sack out in the neonate department afterward. I like to think of myself as a lexicographical Mother Teresa; all words are my children no matter who sired them, the more humble their beginnings, the...

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