Tuesday, October 16, 2007

There's a change on the air

Today was National Dictionary Day. And on ABC news Ben Zimmer was given a chance to agree on national television that vocal c-h-o-r-d is an acceptable spelling.

What makes it acceptable? Well...the fact that it's accepted. Sometimes linguistics is just that simple.

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