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Does learning a new word teach it to everybody?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) May 9th, 2010

It certainly seems so. Haven’t you noticed that you can go for decades without ever seeing a word, but once you run into it in something you are reading, and you look it up and add it to your vocabulary, writers everywhere suddenly start using it with remarkable regularity?

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