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What Makes a Word a Word?

What Makes a Word a Word?

The Colin McEnroe Show

August 28, 201549m 27s

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Show Notes

If you know how to read, you're probably pretty good at recognizing words. But, new words like "egg corn," "crema" and "slendro" are challenging our concept of what makes a word.  Yet these very words were recently added to Merriam-Webster's unabridged online dictionary.

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