Telly writes “Courier-journal.com Reports in the dictionary business, words are important only if people are using them. And in the judgment of the people who put together the latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, microcopy just didn’t make the cut.
It’s not the end of the world — microcopy and the other 3,000 or so words cut from this, the 11th edition of this seminal desktop lexicon, will remain in the company’s larger unabridged dictionary — but the axe did have to fall somewhere.
“
Recent Comments