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Originally Posted by Tormentil  How so ?? The english language is ever evolving. Since I left school way back in 1964, there must be hundreds of new words that have entered our vocabulary. |
But most of them are there because they needed to be made up for new situations, new ways of doing things etc. - minibeast is just dumbing down, invertebrate is meaningful. So if we have a word which works, which young children have no problem understanding then why do we need to make another up - just to appear trendy and with it?