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The dictionary that took a lifetime to finish
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Nothing screams efficiency quite like a project that takes literally a lifetime to finish. The compilers of this linguistic behemoth underestimated the sheer volume of words so horribly that the original editors died long before getting past the halfway point. It required thousands of volunteers mailing in definition slips to map out an ever-evolving vocabulary.
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