Apparently, they are going to protest, outside parliament square (while they still can), and the offices of the Oxford University Press. I don’t see how, they are going to stop people saying Couch Potato, and hence how they are going to stop the OED from putting it in the dictionary; that would make for a good book it contains all the words people don’t object to, it would cut down of printing costs.
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The problem with the OED is that no-one knows whether it’s supposed to dictate the language, or merely reflect it. We habitually declare that if it’s not in the dictionary it’s not a word (cf, rules of scrabble), but if you keep using the word, it appears in the dictionary. It’s very perplexing.