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War of Words

Name: War of Words
Uploaded: 2001-03-06T18:21:00-0500
Duration: 11 min 47 s
Description: Does the word "babelicious" have a place in the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary? The OED's first American editor, Jesse Sheidlower, thinks so. Bob Simon reports on how American slang is changing the English language.

Does the word "babelicious" have a place in the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary? The OED's first American editor, Jesse Sheidlower, thinks so. Bob Simon reports on how American slang is changing the English language.