The OED project was neither the first nor the last instance in which the content and shape of the English language was a controversial issue. McCrum, Cran, and MacNeil cite the addition of some 12,000 new words to the English lexicon during the English Renaissance (from the high Tudor period to the Protectorate). The words came fro
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