Dictionaries change even slower than church.(Brief Article)

National Catholic Reporter | December 17, 1999| | Copyright

During Advent last year, my twin called. She was fishing for gift ideas. I told her what I'd told her many times before, that I'd always wanted a dictionary from my twin the writer. I could hear her eyes roll.

Nevertheless, last year, under the Christmas tree with a card declaring, "Ya get what ya ask for" was a 1998 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. The dictionary was labeled as "celebrating a century of new words." It had added euro, feng shui, right-size, search engine, URL this past year.

I used my new dictionary without much thought until I ...

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