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Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
Salon via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAntiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images...
People Shared The Funniest Wikipedia Pages They've Ever Read, And It's A Perfect Read
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOne of the best places to get lost on the internet when you're bored (or curious) is Wikipedia....
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,...
It's more important to stop the fighting than whether to call wars genocide | Opinion
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 1 month agoToday, the word "genocide" is the one dreadful concept on the minds of many well-meaning people of...
The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAn excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the...
Are you a gardener, or a wannabe horticulturalist?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMonty Don has been goading the Twitterati again, waking up the gardening world from its New Year slumber. This time it’s an etymological issue that has...