Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
Summary
The article argues that nearly half a million two-word phrases with spaces are missing from traditional dictionaries, largely because dictionaries historically favored single words. It shows that Wiktionary provides far more coverage than print dictionaries like MW and Oxford, and it uses an AI-assisted workflow to surface and classify 774K multi-word expressions, highlighting how language is a vast combinatorial space and how this affects word games and NLP.