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12019-10-21T19:43:52-07:00Hankins Feichter4cce6cb584a3e5057ce8981a6ea7dff6489ff85b353374plain2019-10-21T19:52:00-07:00Hankins Feichter4cce6cb584a3e5057ce8981a6ea7dff6489ff85bIn 1984, new dictionaries began to be published containing the word "repurpose". Oftentimes removed from slang, the cutting edge of linguistic development, dictionaries and words like "repurpose" often exist in a realm of linguistic development lagging behind slang but seen regardless as more official and formal.
To the "formal" speaker, how might May, 1984 have looked now?
Dictionary addition years retrieved from https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/which-words-were-added-to-the-dictionary-the-year-you-were-born-248480