August 26 - Its a sad day for aviation - Collins Dictionary has deemed the word AERODROME to be obsolete and will remove it from its smaller dictionaries.
Dr Ruth O'Donovan, asset development manager at Collins Language Division in Glasgow, said: ‘We track words using a very large database of language which is a very large collection of various texts from spoken and written language, including books, newspapers and magazines so we can track language change over time.
‘We track new words but we can also track for the frequency of existing words and when they get below a certain threshold we see them as being obsolete, though they may be used in very specialist circumstances.
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