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Do we need a new dictionary?
Over the weekend I played boggle with my family. If you’re not familiar, it is a word game similar to scrabble. After shaking up die, that have letters on them, players have one minute to form words.
My mom wrote the word ‘poi’ and to verify that indeed it was a word (and spelled correctly) my 11-year-old niece looked it up in my parent’s very outdated dictionary from the 1960’s.
Poi, it seems, was not a word and would not be counted in this game of boggle.
Today’s modern dictionary, however, includes poi as a word coming from Hawaiian and Samoan cultures.
That got me to thinking, do we need a new dictionary to reflect the growth of the United States as multicultural society? Conversely, are there words we use that may be outdated?
Lets look at the examples Colored and Spanish that I hear quite frequently.
The term black or African American are more acceptable these days than...
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