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Dear Spinster,

Where do all the old words they don’t include in the new editions in the dictionary go ?

Wordy McWordsmith

Dear Wordy,

I have been fretting about this for some time now and have written to Cambridge dictionaries for an answer. I should imagine they store them in some huge underground cavern. Although I do mourn the passage of some excellent archaic words, such as ‘anacreontic’, I am avant garde in my vocabulary when conversing with my niece’s children on the instant messaging system.
LOL
TTYL