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Thread #54007   Message #834215
Posted By: GUEST,Q
24-Nov-02 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: resolving common errors in English (USA
Subject: RE: BS: resolving common errors in English (USA
Mr Red, not sure I understood. Psychedelic is in my 1996 Webster's Collegiate. Obstreperous also is there as it should be; it is an old word as least as old as 1600, and fairly common in usage. Never heard of obstro---.
Mr Happy. Gullible- dating at least back to 1800, is in Webster's. Commonly used words are NOT removed. It is a word heard every day.

Some words are removed from smaller dictionaries. I have an old Webster's Collegiate, from the 1940s. In it are a number of Scottish words that are absent in the newer Webster's. They have been removed to keep the size down. They would not be removed from a comprehensive dictionary (the OED). The OED just keeps getting larger.