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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...
Dictionary.com adds over 300 new words: Here's what deadass, hellscape and petfluencer mean
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWe have some new words to describe our hellscape. Dictionary.com added more than 300 new words...
Patrick Hanks, lexicographer who illuminated the history of rude words and surnames – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPatrick Hanks, who has died aged 83, was a lexicographer, corpus linguist and onomastician, one who...
The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAn excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the...
‘Dictionary of Fine Distinctions’ Review: Subtle Shades of Meaning
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoBOOKSHELF Do you know the difference between a flat white and a cappuccino? What about a gully and a...
11 Language Books That Won’t Bore You
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBuzzFeed News The BuzzFeed copy desk is obviously obsessed with all things grammar, style, and editing. Here are some of our favorite books on language....
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)...
Can English unite a divided America? A Mexican American scholar weighs in
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDifferent groups have made American English their own, says Latino scholar Ilan Stavans in "The...
The Scientists Who Cracked Google Translate for Whale Sounds
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTom MustillThe global mecca for whale-watching, Monterey Bay, is a short drive from the epicenter of...
Faith Works: Where do you get your information from?
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMy primary source of information is from reading. I’m not going to try to pretend that I don’t watch TV, but for a variety of reasons I tend not to trust...
