Hangman, Spare That Word: The English Purge Their Language
Time
Dave Bradley Photography / Getty Good luck with that. Here in Old Blighty, the birthplace of English, the dictionary's compilers face passionate resistance from language lovers who believe that any cull reduces the richness and variety that...
Man finishes reading the Oxford English Dictionary
WWMT
NEW YORK (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - For literature lovers there's nothing like getting lost in a good book. But one man's latest read might leave you scratching your head. "Reading the dictionary is just like reading any other great book, but the wo...
Do Children Commit Suicide?
Slate
The Oxford English Dictionary finds the first use of "101" as an introductory course number in a 1929 University of Buffalo course catalog. Colleges and universities began to switch to a three-digit course-numbering system around this time....
Elmer Smith: Failed execs get the lollipop, laid-off workers get the ...
Philadelphia Daily News
They'd need an exec-to-English dictionary to decipher it. Where the laid-off workers get paychecks, the execs get compensation packages. The paycheck system is as simple as the well-meaning workers who earn them. A rate is set based on the ...
Entire staff of Canadian Oxford Dictionary cut
Globe and Mail
Jim Brennan from Canada writes: The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition (CD-ROM, Version 3.1.1) with 500,000 words and 2,500,000 quotations sells for $198 (www.elearnaid.com/oedoxendisee1.html) in the U.S. or for $330 Cdn at www.chapte...
The great 'scape
Boston Globe
One of the early examples in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from a 1603 poem by Joshua Sylvester, celebrating the Creator as an artist, "Limning a Land-scape, various, rich, and rare," who has laid down his "weary Pencill" on the seven...
Lebanese Group Seeks to Reclaim Hummus in Israel Trade Tiff
Bloomberg
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word was first absorbed into English from Turkish. Hummus is its common spelling in English, with variations hommos and hoummos. But don't confuse it with humus, an English word in use since the 18th c...
Workers' Edge
CNET News
English dictionary add-on. While I was at it, I also installed the French dictionary add-on, just in case I bump into Ludivine Sagnier in a chat room someday. Right. Give IE 7 some spelling skills One of the many reasons I recommend IE7Pro ...
Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PR Newswire
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Merriam-Webster announces this month the publication of Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary -- the first advanced learner's dictionary from an American publisher. Created by Nor...
The man who reads dictionaries
BBC News
Mr Shea, a 37-year-old former furniture remover in New York, has spent 12 months conquering what he describes as the Everest of dictionaries, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), by ploughing through 20 volumes weighing a total of 137lbs. I...
