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The Graveyard of Words: Who Decides When a Word Is Officially Dead?
For every new word that enters the dictionary, thousands of others fall into disuse and disappear into the graveyard of language. This linguistic culling isn’t decided by a single authority, but is a slow, organic process of collective neglect driven by cultural and technological change. Lexicographers act as historians, not executioners, tracking a word’s slow fade into obsolescence.
