[00:00.00]Module 2 EVERYDAY ENGLISH
[00:05.77]UNIT 2 Have a nice day.
[00:08.78]1 Listen and read.
[00:12.35]How do writers decide
[00:13.99]which words belong in a dictionary?
[00:17.30]This is not an easy question to answer
[00:20.21]because it is not easy to write a dictionary!
[00:23.88]Languages are not dead-they are alive-so
[00:28.29]dictionaries have to change as languages change
[00:32.44]So, how do dicionary writers or editors decide
[00:36.18]which words to include in a dictionary?
[00:39.00]The number of times people use a word helps
[00:41.93]the writers or editors, to decide if that word
[00:45.60]belongs in a dictionary.
[00:47.70]Dictionary writers or editors read a lot.
[00:51.02]Every day, they read newspapers,
[00:53.33]magazines and books,
[00:55.51]they also look for information on the Internet.
[00:58.47]They look for new words and they look for words
[01:01.57]that people are using in a different way.
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