10 Aug
2005
10 Aug
'05
8:39 p.m.
Philip Leonard wrote:
Gerald Combs wrote:
Gyro and Cygnus are both in the Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and Wiktionary dictionaries of the English language (I don't have access to the OED). Does that not, by definition, make them English?
Actually I think the Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive work for the English language.
Is this by consensus, or is there some sort of governing body for the English language, similar to the Académie française?