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Forever catching up on yesterday's new ideas, authorities have no choice but to resist today's new ideas. Which is why creative thinkers are always challenging authority. Not just to be obnoxious. Take one of our most common authorities—the dictionary. Open it to any page. I'll bet you're familiar with more than half the words on that or any page. What good is a book that tells you, for the most part, what you already know? Especially if it does not contain words you need to know? Let's say, back in the 90s you were reading an ad for a computer program, and it claims to have "true wysiwyg capability." No matter how up-to-date your dictionary was at the time, you wouldn't have found wysiwyg. What if you had wanted to spell glasnost or perestroika back then? Sorry. Of course, if still not sure about the word cow, you're in luck. It's still there. You might even find cash cow now, a term that strayed into the language a long time ago. That's only slightly faster than calling the public library. Even though it's hardly news, the good word is, Wiktionary. |
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Don't take my word for it. Dig deeper. |
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