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Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAntiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images...
Fact check: No, Wikipedia didn't change its definition of the term 'definition'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe claim: Image shows Wikipedia changed its definition of "definition" Definitions of key words...
The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 6 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· 3 months agoGetty Images Claim: The word "gauze," woven fabric used for medical purposes, originated from Gaza,...
Trump coins new nickname for Gavin Newsom: ‘New-scum’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 months agoNickname alert! Get out your Donald Trump dictionaries as the former president has coined yet...
Encyclopedia Britannica plots $1bn stock market listing
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 1 month 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 party is getting wrong about ‘woke’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere has been something deeply depressing about the Tory leadership contest. No, I’m not talking...
Is DALL-E's art borrowed or stolen?
Engadget· 2 years agoIn 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists under a false name. Fountain was a urinal, bought from a toilet...
Time to wake up about 'Woke': Color Us Connected
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 12 months 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 ...
