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  Saturday  June 5  2004    02: 21 PM

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Double-Tongued Word Wrester
A Growing Dictionary of Old and New Words


Double-Tongued Word Wrester records words as they enter and leave the English language. It focuses upon slang, jargon, and other niche categories which include new, foreign, hybrid, archaic, obsolete, and rare words. Special attention is paid to the lending and borrowing of words between the various Englishes and other languages, even where a word is not a fully naturalized citizen in its new language.

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