When I was a kid, I used to want to strangle my mother because from the time I could read, if I didn’t know the meaning of a word or how to spell it, she would tell me to “go look it up,” which meant a trip to our trusty dictionary that had a prominent place in the house.
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This sacred tome held a world of knowledge, and I would never have thought to question its contents.
Now, you can’t even trust the dictionary.
The Cambridge Dictionary recently added a supplemental definition to the word ‘woman’:
“An adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”
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