64: Struggle Pile (with Kelly Wright)
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Is There a Punjabi Dictionary?
I imagine that the OED doesn't like, you know, there's a lot of Punjabi speakers in the UK and they're not going to do a Punjabi dictionary. I would love to hear a story about a word that you worked on. So one of them was like Taipa with T-Y-P-A. You have some type of blah, blah,blah, right? I don't know if they can answer it in English. Like you feel some type of way about this. This is lexicalized. Could you tell us about aword that they came to you with and said, what about this one?"
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