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Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAntiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images...
Will The Oxford Dictionary Of African American English Help Address Language Appropriation?
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA new project will finally acknowledge that AAVE isn't just slang. AlthoughAfricanAmerican...
10 Words Added To First Oxford Dictionary Of African American English
VIBE via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA first-of-its-kind dictionary is coming to the world that’s comprised of words created, defined,...
Henry Louis Gates, Oxford working to publish African American dictionary
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHarvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, led by Dr. Henry...
Sho' You Right: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English is On The Way
The Root via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf you’ve ever seriously considered Black American English to be its own language, you aren’t the...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced as editor-in-chief of the new Oxford Dictionary of African American...
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoPopular words used in Black culture for centuries are making their way into Oxford’s newest...
The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAn excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the...
How to decipher the clues nature leaves behind | ECOVIEWS
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWant to enrich your wildlife experience on a warm spring day when birds, insects and plants abound?...
18th century Samuel Johnson letter to young girl sells for £38,460
Press Association News via AOL· 8 months agoA newly discovered letter by English writer and ‘father of the modern dictionary’ Dr Samuel Johnson...
'Star Wars' has changed the English language. Here's how
Space via Yahoo News· 6 months agoStar Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back_LucasFilm. The "Star Wars" entertainment juggernaut...