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The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via AOL· 6 months agoAn excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the...
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)...
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...
‘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...
David Murdock Column: On spring cleaning with sleuths and stories
The Gadsden Times via AOL· 1 month agoAs I write the column this week, it’s still “officially” winter, but not for long. The weather...
It's Definitely Fishy, but What Exactly Does Being 'Catfished' Mean?
Parade via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPlus, signs that someone is catfishing you. A little over a decade ago, the population was...
Are you a gardener, or a wannabe horticulturalist?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 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...