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Old 15-04-2011, 18:31   #20
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Re: What's a lodge to you?

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Originally Posted by katex View Post

They say if a word is used often enough, then the dicionaries will accept it. I am sure that most of Lancashire understands this meaning, and suggest you write to them at once...
I have done.

Contacted the Oxford English Dictionary new words editor, telling them what we know the word to be, and supplied published evidence that lodge can refer to a body of water.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I'll let you know if you're called as a witness.

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