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These interjections could be considered marginal slang; but they are not so labeled in dictionaries and do not meet Lighter's criteria.
No one could claim that it is an easy task to create collocations dictionaries: the chief problem is where to draw the proverbial line on a spectrum ranging from complete predictability, usually on a left-to-right basis, to total volatility of association by mere juxtaposition, for example, corned beef v. cheap beef .
Notwithstanding, people who use dictionaries regularly become accustomed to one, which becomes their favorite for any number of reasons: for purposes of utility and for philosophical reasons, I prefer geographical and biographical entries to be interfiled with other entries in one alphabetical listing; others prefer to have them separate.
Another complaint is his detailed treatment of the semantics of a word, appropriate, perhaps, to synonym studies in dictionaries (but only too rarely well done there) but telling most readers more than they ever wanted to know about a given handful of terms.
Startlingly, of these 12 Robinsons no single one is enshrined in all five dictionaries!