That's a good point. The makers of dictionaries have always sought catalogue language rather than create it. That's what Samuel Johnson set out to do. Without d

That's a good point. The makers of dictionaries have always sought catalogue language rather than create it. That's what Samuel Johnson set out to do. Without dictionaries we certainly would have lost a lot of words from our collective knowledge along the way. Sesquiedalian seems to have been popping up since the 1600s. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/176752?redirectedFrom=sesquipedalian#eid http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/176752?redirectedFrom=sesquipe...