The short-priced favourite that ran second in this year’s Melbourne Cup was a horse called ‘incentivise’. But is that a real word? Yes, it is, and it’s ours and it’s political. You won’t find incentivise in any of the great international dictionaries. It’s not in the Oxford, the Websters, the Collins.
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