"Deduplicate," "Dedupe," and "Deduplication"
Shapiro, Fred
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Jan 11 22:53:42 UTC 2012
I notice that the verbs "deduplicate" and "dedupe," which I use often in my work, are not in OED nor Merriam-Webster. Same with "deduplication" in the sense 'elimination of redundancy.' Google has, respectively, 67,000, 612,000, and 2,150,000 hits for the three words.
Fred Shapiro
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