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Of course ‘clownvestite’ is a word!

Part of my job involves finding the extent to which Oxford Dictionaries Online is being linked to from other websites. To perform this task I query the search engines, and to see how you use our dictionary I visit a proportion of the websites linking to ODO that I find. A significant proportion of inbound [...]

Posted on: March 30 2011 | Posted by: | Comments: 0 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography, Word trends and new words | Tags: , , ,

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