[lg policy] Stunning revelation: Secret dictionary panel controls English language

[Baron, Dennis E]

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Stunning revelation: Secret dictionary panel controls English language

There’s a secret committee that controls the English language. We’ve long suspected as much. Now we know it for a fact. The existence of a lexicographic cabal sounds like a story out of the National Enquirer, but the startling revelation that a little known panel of experts decides what words go into the dictionary came this week in reports from the BBC and the New Republic, two impeccable journalistic sources.


read it all on the Web of Language: http://bit.ly/QtxkfY

Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217-305-0067
fax: 217-333-4321

http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron<http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron>

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