Thread: let's get liseuse recognized as a real word
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Old 09-12-2009, 04:48 AM   #124
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
The word Liseuse has been used here on MR since 18 February 2008. I think it's time we made a sincere effort to get it recognized as a real word. I have a Wikipedia page started here. I also submitted it to the Urban Dictionary.

I'm going to go see how to submit it to the OED.
It is a "real word" - a real French word, not an English one. English already has an entirely satisfactory phrase, "eBook Reader". Why do you want to adopt a foreign word?
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