Mulling Mulling On Mull’s Mull

(More words? We don’t use the ones we’ve got!)

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Every year, the valiant vocabulary guardians of the famous Oxford English Dictionary release their list of new words. The word-herders have been doing this 1857, the same year as the very first Star Wars prequel. (Star Wars Negative XXVIII: The Wrath of Jabba the Hut’s Colon)

Each year the British book gets a little thicker, like American politicians, as the Oxford keepers of the English language allow as “acceptable” a few more words –...