👂Advanced English Listening Practice (with Luke / Luke's English Podcast)
English Like A Native Podcast
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Using Jiggery Pokery in Dictionaries
I wonder how long it takes them to catch up yeah. It's a very complicated thing like writing dictionaries that are that follow the trends because you know obviously dictionaries do follow the way that we use language they don't define how we should use language That's kind of what they doYeah I guess dictionaries they have to try to keep up and they do it with lots of databases of of English usage concordance data and so it's all about trying to crunch the numbers"
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