Really-- according to this online dictionary. How do I react to this news?
A) Denial
B) Anger
C) Bargaining
D) Reluctant acceptance
E) Detached amusement
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Cameron Frye
I kid. A little. I've already gone those reactions listed above. I love arcane, esoteric, multisyllabic words and collect them like an orthographic magpie. It pains me slightly that a four-year-old's term for an unimaginable sum exaggerated amount is now recognized by a dictionary as A Real Word. But such is language: it changes, with old words fading with disuse and new ones forever cropping up to identify things that haven't ever existed before and more succinctly describe the zeitgeist of today.
A. Don't use it.
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