Anti-Dictionary

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Anti-Dictionary

A Selected List of Words Being Forced from the Modern Lexicon

Language: reference and general Usage and grammar guides Sociolinguistics Popular culture

Author: Michael Cromwell

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Language: English

Published by: iUniverse

Published on: 8th April 2002

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 120 Kb

ISBN: 9781469750842


Words are dying

Not all words. Only a select few—words that have specific bearing on our moral health as a nation and our moral past. In this book, a selected list of words is given. These words are not dying because of misuse, but because their essential meanings have been forgotten, compromised or eclipsed altogether.

As America enters a moral vacuum, it seems the opposite of what we were and what we are is now the rule. What was once "bad" it seems is now "good" and vice versa. The use of words and language reflects this change. Such obscuring of language is subtle, but there nonetheless. Beware!

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