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The Dog’s Bollocks

Over at The Bygone Bureau, Nick Martens has been browsing the Oxford English Dictionary and meandering through words tagged “typogr.”—typographical terminology. Now that all references to movable type...

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OED for You and Me

Via languagehat, the Oxford English Dictionary is giving free access to its new edition of the OED online through February 5. Login and password are both “trynewoed.” (Languagehat‘s comments are always...

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The OED, OMG

The Oxford English Dictionary has completed its latest quarterly online update, with revisions to over 30% of the existing words and a number of new ones added into the mix. Aside from the fact of its...

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A Hundred Years of New Words

Over at the etymology blog Wordorigins.org, Dave Wilton has taken on an interesting word usage project. He’s going through the past century, from 1911 to the present, and putting together a list of...

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Looking It Up: Dictionary Data in a Digital Age

You never see a discussion of online dictionaries without someone invoking the magical powers of browsing. It’s true, of course—who hasn’t discovered a really good word while looking for something...

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Sunday Links, May 5, 2013

The Edgar Award winners have been announced. Dark Eden by Chris Beckett has won Arthur C. Clarke Awardthe Arthur C. Clarke Award. It looks like it’s been acquired for publication in the United States,...

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