Ordinarily in this segment we invite listeners to pitch their made-up words to dictionary editor Erin McKean. As we ring in the New Year, we figured it might be a good time to purge the language of unwanted words. So this week, listeners (and a few of our more cantankerous contributors) bombard Erin with words they’d like to get rid of.
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