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Word wranglers: Meet the team behind the Macquarie Dictionary

July 25, 2017

On a recent Monday, in a corner of Pan Macmillan Australia’s offices in Sydney, the Macquarie Dictionary editorial team was mulling over a new word: schapelle -verb (i). to carry out in a hurried or thoughtless way so that detection is unavoidable.

It was a timely eponym…

Read the full article | The Monthly, July 2017

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