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Amanda Montell—The Code

Strange Customs with Sasha Sagan

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Is There a Difference Between Slang and English?

Dictionary is lag behind, especially before sort of this digitization. So they have tended to lag behind actual language as it's actually spoken. For new words, they come into the dictionary, the process was much slower but that didn't mean those words didn't exist. It just replicated the lag that existed in the production of a dictionary.

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