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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,...
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...
Henry Louis Gates, Oxford working to publish African American dictionary
theGrio via AOL· 2 years agoHarvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, led by Dr. Henry...
Dictionary.com adds box braids to its lexicon
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe wordbook defines box braids as a triple-stranded braid made from the hair in a square-shaped area of the scalp. […] The post Dictionary.com adds box...
Vancouver group’s free plugin removes red line that marks Asian names as errors in MS Word
NextShark via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn advocacy group in Vancouver, Canada, has created a custom dictionary that adds thousands of Asian...
Wolverine works to put ‘woman-made’ in the dictionary
Marketing Dive via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoDive Brief: Wolverine Boots and Apparel on Feb. 29 launched "Woman-Made," a campaign that spotlights...
Swahili and Spanish dictionaries banned in Michigan prisons
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Michigan Department of Corrections has banned dictionaries in Spanish and Swahili, contending...
Voices: 2022’s Words of the Year and what they tell us
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWord of the Year (WOTY) season is upon us, and like the first jingle of sleigh bells in Asda, the...
Man gets a year in prison for threatening Merriam-Webster employees over their definitions for...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA stock image shows a dictionary's entry for 'Woman.'Getty Images A California man got a year in...
The Things We Can't Say
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Yuliaglam An obscure webpage that Stanford University had quietly published seven months earlier made a huge splash in late...
