Lexicographers don’t decide which words are proper, they struggle with words like love. They certainly have a favorite word. Internet makes lexicographers life easier. It took almost fifty years to create the first Oxford English dictionary. Sample sentences from dictionaries can make interesting short stories. The longest word in the dictionary is the name of a lung disease “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis” A murder was a contributor to the first oxford English dictionary “ William Chester Minor” The dictionary included a fake word for five years “dord”