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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...
Fact check: No, Wikipedia didn't change its definition of the term 'definition'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe claim: Image shows Wikipedia changed its definition of "definition" Definitions of key words...
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,...
What did you Google in 2023? ‘Barbie,’ Israel-Hamas war are among the year’s top internet searches
WFLA via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNEW YORK (AP) — Your Google search history for 2023 has arrived. Well, actually, the world’s. On...
It's more important to stop the fighting than whether to call wars genocide | Opinion
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoToday, the word "genocide" is the one dreadful concept on the minds of many well-meaning people of...
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...
5 Habits That Have Been Wiped Out By The Internet
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere’s no question that the internet has made life easier. But it also has wiped out a lot of personal habits, some of which might have been...
Voices: Here’s what the Tory leadership candidates are getting wrong about ‘woke’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere’s something deeply depressing about the Tory leadership contest. No, I’m not talking about the...
This Spring Grove Cemetery building is a window to Cincinnati's Gothic past
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJames Keys Wilson, the earliest known Cincinnati-born architect, was the leader in that profession...
Fridson: The S&L junk bond myth refuses to die
Pitchbook via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThis commentary is written by Martin Fridson, a high-yield market veteran who is chief investment officer of Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors LLC as well as a contributing analyst to Leveraged ...