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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...
Researcher Who Coined 'Cisgender' Reacts To Elon Musk Labeling It 'A Slur'
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwitter CEO and noted transphobe Elon Musk has decreed that the words “cis” and “cisgender” will be...
Poor, pitiful conservatives: How the right's counterfeit victimhood narratives harm all of us
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDonald Trump; Ron DeSantis; Election 2024 Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images The Oxford...
Elon Musk Dials Up Transphobia on Twitter, Says 'Cis' Is a Slur
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 12 months agoTwitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk, who had previously declared himself a “free speech...
Henry Louis Gates, Oxford working to publish African American dictionary
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHarvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, led by Dr. Henry...
Mary Bullard: Avoiding 'twitterpation' on social media
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe word “twitterpated” was coined by Disney in the 1942 movie “Bambi.” The Oxford English...
Stuck for inspiration? Try applying these 5 techniques from visual art to your music production
MusicRadar via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPiano. Although music is a form of art, when we talk about art, many people think only of visual art...
Major events during the Queen’s long life
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoHere are some of the major events and milestones the Queen lived through: 1926: General Strike. Duchess of York gives birth to Princess Elizabeth....
EDITORIAL: Free breakfast for all students? It's a good start
Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 27—In 1992, a writer named Rebecca Camu did something no one had done before — not in print, anyway. In a short story titled "A Splinter of Glass," Camu became the first author to use the ...
Fact Check: The Word 'Gauze' Sounds Similar to 'Gaza.' Linguists Say That's Probably No Accident
Snopes via Yahoo News· 5 months agoGetty Images Claim: The word "gauze," woven fabric used for medical purposes, originated from Gaza,...
