Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi
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There are over 170,000 words currently in use in the English language. Yet every year, about a thousand new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Where do they come from, and how do they make it into our everyday lives? Marcel Danesi explains how new words enter a language.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Marcel Danesi
- Director
- Hector Herrera
- Script Editor
- Alex Gendler
- Producer
- Pazit Cahlon
- Composer
- Adam Harendorf
