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The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via AOL· 7 months agoAn excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the...
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...
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...
Patrick Hanks, lexicographer who illuminated the history of rude words and surnames – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPatrick Hanks, who has died aged 83, was a lexicographer, corpus linguist and onomastician, one who...
African-American English Dictionary gives first look at 10 words, including ‘bussin’ and ‘old...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA dictionary composed of words created or redefined by Black people released a list of 10 words that will appear when the book is published in March 2025. Topping the list is “bussin,” which ...
The Oxford English Dictionary declares 'rizz' is the 2023 word of the year
The Today Show via AOL· 5 months agoIt's official: Rizz is the word of the year, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. What does...
11 Language Books That Won’t Bore You
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBuzzFeed News The BuzzFeed copy desk is obviously obsessed with all things grammar, style, and editing. Here are some of our favorite books on language....
Dictionary.com adds over 300 new words: Here's what deadass, hellscape and petfluencer mean
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWe have some new words to describe our hellscape. Dictionary.com added more than 300 new words...
'Queerbaiting' & Other LGBTQ+ Terms Were Just Added to the Dictionary
Out via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDictionary.com, everyone’s go-to online dictionary, has updated their 2023 database to include...
Dictionary.com just added over 500 words. Here are some you may know
Newsy via AOL· 9 months agoDictionary.com is shown. Look out moms: Some of your child's internet slang words have just made it...