How Dictionaries Decide Who Lives and Who Dies
Ever wonder how words like "rizz" become official while others fade away into obscurity? This post goes behind the scenes of lexicography, revealing the data-driven process that determines when a…
Tag: obsolete words
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,…
Archaic Portuguese Words: A Journey through Literature
In the kaleidoscopic world of language evolution, words ebb and flow, surge, and retreat like the waves of an ocean. Some survive the torrents of...