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And all suggestions for invented new gender-neutral pronouns have failed: pronouns (unlike nouns and verbs) are a "closed class" of words, almost never admitting new members.
As if to corroborate this idea, Merriam-Webster's Web site offers tips on how to get credit for invented words that make their way into the mainstream.
In 1997, when Quijada ran his first Web search for invented languages, he discovered that his strange passion was in fact shared by others.
Critics say they help drive up health care costs by encouraging consumers to take more expensive and sometimes less effective drugs, in some cases for invented diseases.
This doesn't mean that there is no room for invented stories or that King Lear and The Lion King have suddenly become redundant.
SHOSTAKOVICH was an enfant terrible who retained something of the enfant, bewildered and petulant behind his owlish glasses, punished at random for invented crimes (the dread "formalism") by mercurial, all-powerful authorities.
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Please apologise for inventing democracy.
Thank you for inventing Bitcoin".
Dean was responsible then for inventing "Dixie".
No one person gets credit for inventing photography.
"I criticise the media for inventing stories," he said.
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