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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...
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...
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...
Trump coins new nickname for Gavin Newsom: ‘New-scum’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNickname alert! Get out your Donald Trump dictionaries as the former president has coined yet...
Man pleads guilty to threatening to 'bomb' Merriam-Webster offices over gender definitions
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA California man pleaded guilty last week to threatening "to shoot up and bomb" dictionary publisher...
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’: Meet the Real-Life Na’vi Community
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Indigenous blue humanoids of James Cameron’s Pandora have inspired a community of people who’ve...
Encyclopedia Britannica plots $1bn stock market listing
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoEncyclopædia Britannica is preparing to join the US stock market with a hoped-for $1bn (£850m)...
Inside ChatGPT: How AI chatbots work
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBy now, you’ve heard of ChatGPT and its text generation capabilities. It has passed a business school exam, confounded teachers looking to spot cheaters...
Another Way: A mother’s dictionary
The Daily American via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHave you ever caught yourself using one of your mother’s — or father’s words, that doesn’t really come from any language that you know of other than...
13 Common Things You Never Knew Had Actually Hilarious Real Names
MediaFeed via AOL· 2 months agoBelieve it or not, most of these items have names. It’s just that very few people are aware of that....
