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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...
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...
Fact Check: The Word 'Gauze' Sounds Similar to 'Gaza.' Linguists Say That's Probably No Accident
Snopes via Yahoo News· 4 months agoGetty Images Claim: The word "gauze," woven fabric used for medical purposes, originated from Gaza,...
Encyclopedia Britannica plots $1bn stock market listing
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoEncyclopædia Britannica is preparing to join the US stock market with a hoped-for $1bn (£850m)...
A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language of peace hated by Hitler and Stalin alike
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the...
Voices: Here’s what the Tory Leadership party is getting wrong about ‘woke’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere has been something deeply depressing about the Tory leadership contest. No, I’m not talking...
Time to wake up about 'Woke': Color Us Connected
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, Jr., an African American man from Tuskegee, Ala., and Amy Miller, a white woman ...