Who decides what's in the dictionary?
Across
- 6. producing wealth
- 8. an insulting remark, word or phrase
- 10. not required
- 12. someone who is forced to do hard, dull or tedious work
- 14. to prevent the inclusion or entrance of
- 15. no longer current
- 16. a dictionary which dictates rules and methods how words should be used - implicates a correctness
Down
- 1. not causing pain or danger
- 2. elevated in character in status, compared to others
- 3. a dictionary in that aims to indicate how words are actually used by current day speakers
- 4. to encompass in a group, decision or activity
- 5. to take up gladly or readily
- 7. to imply to opposite or a denial of
- 9. created or arising from spite or hatred
- 11. made of complicated or interrelated parts
- 13. informal, non-standard vocabulary peculiar to a group