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Are you "xenolexic"* ?
This word, and others, can be found in the list of "Unused but Useful: Oxford English Dictionary's Reject List."
Sandra Yeyati shared an interesting article that includes this note:
Oxford University holds 50 large filing cabinets crammed with 1000s of 6 x 4 inch cards detailing every declined entry for the Dictionary.
Of course, now the words are kept on computers.
*xenolexic: someone who suffers intense confusion when faced with a new word
Read the article from AolNews.com - Unused but Useful: Oxford English Dictionary's Reject List
And today we learn: the Oxford English Dictionary will not be PRINTED again!!! On-line OK...
Read the article from Telegraph.co.uk - Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed again'
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