Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds new words from the modern lexicon to their illustrious index. However what gets lost in the shuffle of excitement over the official (and rather hilarious) addition of words like “sexting” and “mankini” is the undignified and rather confusing removal of the term “cassette tape.”

Is this Good English Practice?

Adding and removing at will what Body is in charge of this, and can they excercise such despotic precedence over the spoken, written word?

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