5 ‘Words’ That Don’t Exist (And 5 Weird Ones That Do)

Language never stops evolving.

Laura Mondragón
The Writing Cooperative
3 min readJun 25, 2019

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As language evolves and new concepts emerge, we invent words. After all, even just a few years ago, words like selfie, emoji and binge-watch didn’t exist. But some commonly used “words” are just misused variants of real terms — you know, like strategery — and using them may make you look foolish.

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