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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)...
It’s Esperanto Day, Celebrating the Language Hitler Despised
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFrank Perry/AFP via GettyIn the late 1800s, the city of Białystok—which was once Polish, then...
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...
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 ...
When did Democrats and Republicans switch platforms?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAbraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President and a Republican (left), and Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. President and a Democrat. The Republican and...
Many Paths: Use your heart and be kind as hate, violence persists
The Register-Mail via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the bible, Jeremiah 17:9-10 reads, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately...
This day in search marketing history: March 1
Search Engine Land· 1 year agoGoogle publishes Search quality rating guidelines, plus: Ginny Marvin joins Google, AdWords Price Extensions, click fraud and more. The post This day in search marketing history: March 1 appeared first on Search Engine Land.
