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by backscratches 117 days ago
Not with corpus frequency. Just has to exist a single time in agreed upon dictionary.
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wredcoll 117 days ago
And the dictionary chooses words based on... how often people use them?
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backscratches 116 days ago
Dictionaries would be ruined if they could only use popular words. I guess you might be describing very early children's dictionaries, but I dont think that's your argument?
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