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Who has the authority to make those kinds of official decisions about words, anyway?

I do, however, collect new words much the way dictionary editors do, and the great thing about being a historian of the English language is that I get to call this "research."

When I teach the history of the English language, I require that students teach me two new slang words before I will begin class.

I'm struck as a teacher that we tell students to critically question every text they read, every website they visit, except dictionaries, which we tend to treat as un-authored, as if they came from nowhere to give us answers about what words really mean.

They have to gamble, because they want to appear cutting edge and catch the words that are going to make it, such as LOL, but they don't want to appear faddish and include the words that aren't going to make it, and I think a word that they're watching right now is YOLO, you only live once.

Will all of these words stick?

Now, a few weeks before our vote, Lake Superior State University issues its list of banished words for the year.

What is striking about this is that there's actually often quite a lot of overlap between their list and the list that we are considering for words of the year, and this is because we're noticing the same thing.

We're noticing words that are coming into prominence.

The list by Lake Superior State University continues a fairly long tradition in English of complaints about new words.

I have an entire file in my office of newspaper articles which express concern about illegitimate words that should not have been included in the dictionary, including "LOL" when it got into the Oxford English Dictionary and "defriend" when it got into the Oxford American Dictionary.

They try to provide us some guidance about words that are considered slang or informal or offensive, often through usage labels, but they're in something of a bind, because they're trying to describe what we do, and they know that we often go to dictionaries to get information about how we should use a word well or appropriately.

Usage notes tend to occur with words that are troublesome in one way, and one of the ways that they can be troublesome is that they're changing meaning.

What I'm saying is, we should be less quick to decide that that change is terrible, we should be less quick to impose our likes and dislikes about words on other people, and we should be entirely reluctant to think that the English language is in trouble.

If you're thinking, "But that lets all of us decide what words mean," I would say, "Yes it does, and it always has." Dictionaries are a wonderful guide and resource, but there is no objective dictionary authority out there that is the final arbiter about what words mean.

The trip, in other words, gave me some amazing sights, but it's only sitting still that allows me to turn those into lasting insights.

In other words, precisely those beings who have created the technologies that override so many of the limits of old, are the ones wisest about the need for limits, even when it comes to technology.

Or, in other words, what room in my house will 3D printing fit in?

Pray to Him." Now, I wasn't religious at that time, nor am I religious now, but it was something so profound about my son's words.

So we tested password meters that were different sizes, shapes, colors, different words next to them, and we even tested one that was a dancing bunny.

So in our study, we used Mechanical Turk again, and we had the computer pick the random words in the pass phrase.

Now the reason we did this is that humans are not very good at picking random words.

In one condition, the computer picked from a dictionary of the very common words in the English language, and so you'd get pass phrases like "try there three come."

So then we tried picking words that came from specific parts of speech, so how about noun-verb-adjective-noun.

And what I did is I created this word cloud, and I went through all 1,000 words, and I categorized them into loose thematic categories.

I'm talking about this definition, to greet or acclaim enthusiastically, which is how I think our words will be received if we stand on these four things.

This is the miracle that has enabled us to transship our bodies and our minds and our words and our pictures and our ideas and our teaching and our learning around the planet ever faster and ever cheaper.

In other words, those substances are only present in the killer's print.

These were words that could get you killed.

There are no words adequate to denounce the al Shabaab terrorists who attacked the Westgate Mall in Nairobi on the same day as a children's cooking competition in September of 2013.

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