<p>Trying to measure a collection of words against the Oxford English Dictionary - and coming up short.</p><p>Word Wrangling is an independent production. We are always on the lookout for new ways with words. If you have any thoughts please get in touch.</p>

Trying to measure a collection of words against the Oxford English Dictionary - and coming up short. Word Wrangling is an independent production. We are always on the lookout for new ways with words. If you have any thoughts please get in touch.

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Slang lexicographer and language commentator Terry Victor is happiest on the liberal left wing of language usage. Here's his short, sharp and sideways looks at the ways we mess with the English language. It's our language, we can do what we like with it. Occasionally provocative, sometimes grumpy and generally mischievous: that's Word Wrangling.

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