Replacing old-school for new-cool will see words such as 'retweet' take a place on the dictionary's pages instead as its editor-at-large Jesse Sheidlower branded the cassette tape "so past its prime that it was not worth keeping it in."
Cassette sales peaked in 1990, eclipsed by the rise and peak of CDs in 2000 which has now made way for digital music.
As of mid-August this year, cassette album sales stood at 22,000 according to Nielsen Soundscan.
Chris Muratore, vice ...
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