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by anamexis 1495 days ago
Well, as noted in the article, asshead has a few hundred years on asshat...
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deaddodo 1495 days ago
Words also lose notability and are removed from the dictionary all the time. Literally the inverse argument for adding "asshat".
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anamexis 1494 days ago
Words are usually just removed from print editions to manage space. Otherwise they are just marked as obsolete or archaic.
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deaddodo 1494 days ago
Sure. Asshead is marked as neither.
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