#lexicography โ Public Fediverse posts
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Happy birthday to Webster's Dictionary!
Noah Webster registered the copyright for his ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, containing 70,000 entries, on 4/14/1828.
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Happy birthday to Webster's Dictionary!
Noah Webster registered the copyright for his ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, containing 70,000 entries, on 4/14/1828.
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Happy birthday to Webster's Dictionary!
Noah Webster registered the copyright for his ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, containing 70,000 entries, on 4/14/1828.
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Happy birthday to Webster's Dictionary!
Noah Webster registered the copyright for his ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, containing 70,000 entries, on 4/14/1828.
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For those of you who like this sort of thing, here's a neat little BBC news story on the origins of the now ubiquitous phrase; 'not fit for purpose'.
It tracks its widening use & its (continuing) relevance to the Home Office. If politics is in part carried out in language then a bit of lexicographical history is always interesting. Enjoy
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For those of you who like this sort of thing, here's a neat little BBC news story on the origins of the now ubiquitous phrase; 'not fit for purpose'.
It tracks its widening use & its (continuing) relevance to the Home Office. If politics is in part carried out in language then a bit of lexicographical history is always interesting. Enjoy
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For those of you who like this sort of thing, here's a neat little BBC news story on the origins of the now ubiquitous phrase; 'not fit for purpose'.
It tracks its widening use & its (continuing) relevance to the Home Office. If politics is in part carried out in language then a bit of lexicographical history is always interesting. Enjoy
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For those of you who like this sort of thing, here's a neat little BBC news story on the origins of the now ubiquitous phrase; 'not fit for purpose'.
It tracks its widening use & its (continuing) relevance to the Home Office. If politics is in part carried out in language then a bit of lexicographical history is always interesting. Enjoy
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For those of you who like this sort of thing, here's a neat little BBC news story on the origins of the now ubiquitous phrase; 'not fit for purpose'.
It tracks its widening use & its (continuing) relevance to the Home Office. If politics is in part carried out in language then a bit of lexicographical history is always interesting. Enjoy
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The FAKE words in the dictionary โ dive into spooky "ghost words" that slipped into dictionaries despite not existing! RobWords unpacks why they appear and why lexicography is full of surprises. Curious? Tune in! #words #etymology #linguistics #language #lexicography #dictionary #wordnerd #ghostwords #Education #English
https://tube.blueben.net/videos/watch/454909c0-d065-4ffb-aea5-180e258cd49c -
The FAKE words in the dictionary โ dive into spooky "ghost words" that slipped into dictionaries despite not existing! RobWords unpacks why they appear and why lexicography is full of surprises. Curious? Tune in! #words #etymology #linguistics #language #lexicography #dictionary #wordnerd #ghostwords #Education #English
https://tube.blueben.net/videos/watch/454909c0-d065-4ffb-aea5-180e258cd49c -
Nice interview with Kory Stamper in #PublishersWeekly about #colors and her new book. I'm going to ask my public library to buy it!
#lexicography
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/99521-the-quixotic-quest-to-define-color-words-pw-talks-with-kory-stamper.html -
Nice interview with Kory Stamper in #PublishersWeekly about #colors and her new book. I'm going to ask my public library to buy it!
#lexicography
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/99521-the-quixotic-quest-to-define-color-words-pw-talks-with-kory-stamper.html -
Nice interview with Kory Stamper in #PublishersWeekly about #colors and her new book. I'm going to ask my public library to buy it!
#lexicography
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/99521-the-quixotic-quest-to-define-color-words-pw-talks-with-kory-stamper.html -
Nice interview with Kory Stamper in #PublishersWeekly about #colors and her new book. I'm going to ask my public library to buy it!
#lexicography
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/99521-the-quixotic-quest-to-define-color-words-pw-talks-with-kory-stamper.html -
Nice interview with Kory Stamper in #PublishersWeekly about #colors and her new book. I'm going to ask my public library to buy it!
#lexicography
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/99521-the-quixotic-quest-to-define-color-words-pw-talks-with-kory-stamper.html -
๐ง Behold, half a million โwords with spacesโ the dictionary gatekeepers have conspired to omit! ๐คฏ Boiling water and Saturday night, lost classics of lexicography! Thanks to our word-game hero, armed with a slider, the linguistic universe will never be the same! ๐๐
https://www.linguabase.org/words-with-spaces.html #wordswithspaces #lexicography #wordgames #languageinnovation #lostclassics #HackerNews #ngated -
๐ง Behold, half a million โwords with spacesโ the dictionary gatekeepers have conspired to omit! ๐คฏ Boiling water and Saturday night, lost classics of lexicography! Thanks to our word-game hero, armed with a slider, the linguistic universe will never be the same! ๐๐
https://www.linguabase.org/words-with-spaces.html #wordswithspaces #lexicography #wordgames #languageinnovation #lostclassics #HackerNews #ngated -
๐ง Behold, half a million โwords with spacesโ the dictionary gatekeepers have conspired to omit! ๐คฏ Boiling water and Saturday night, lost classics of lexicography! Thanks to our word-game hero, armed with a slider, the linguistic universe will never be the same! ๐๐
https://www.linguabase.org/words-with-spaces.html #wordswithspaces #lexicography #wordgames #languageinnovation #lostclassics #HackerNews #ngated -
๐ง Behold, half a million โwords with spacesโ the dictionary gatekeepers have conspired to omit! ๐คฏ Boiling water and Saturday night, lost classics of lexicography! Thanks to our word-game hero, armed with a slider, the linguistic universe will never be the same! ๐๐
https://www.linguabase.org/words-with-spaces.html #wordswithspaces #lexicography #wordgames #languageinnovation #lostclassics #HackerNews #ngated -
A treasure trove of English lowlife now costs you nothing. Greenโs Dictionary of Slangโthe definitive historical record of vulgarities, slurs and other neโer-do-well wordsโis now free to read online.
#slang #language #lexicographyhttps://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/largest-dictionary-of-english-language-slang-now-free-online.html
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A treasure trove of English lowlife now costs you nothing. Greenโs Dictionary of Slangโthe definitive historical record of vulgarities, slurs and other neโer-do-well wordsโis now free to read online.
#slang #language #lexicographyhttps://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/largest-dictionary-of-english-language-slang-now-free-online.html
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A treasure trove of English lowlife now costs you nothing. Greenโs Dictionary of Slangโthe definitive historical record of vulgarities, slurs and other neโer-do-well wordsโis now free to read online.
#slang #language #lexicographyhttps://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/largest-dictionary-of-english-language-slang-now-free-online.html
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A treasure trove of English lowlife now costs you nothing. Greenโs Dictionary of Slangโthe definitive historical record of vulgarities, slurs and other neโer-do-well wordsโis now free to read online.
#slang #language #lexicographyhttps://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/largest-dictionary-of-english-language-slang-now-free-online.html
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Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
#lexicography #Germanistik #dictionaries #xkcd #mittelhochdeutsch
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Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
#lexicography #Germanistik #dictionaries #xkcd #mittelhochdeutsch
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Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
#lexicography #Germanistik #dictionaries #xkcd #mittelhochdeutsch
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Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
#lexicography #Germanistik #dictionaries #xkcd #mittelhochdeutsch
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Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
#lexicography #Germanistik #dictionaries #xkcd #mittelhochdeutsch
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Enjoying this mallifuff Sunday.
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Enjoying this mallifuff Sunday.
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Enjoying this mallifuff Sunday.
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Enjoying this mallifuff Sunday.
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Enjoying this mallifuff Sunday.
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And from the same site, I enjoyed this rant about a New Yorker article about dictionary-making https://languagehat.com/menand-on-the-dictionary/
#dictionaries #lexicography #language #words #MerriamWebster #blog
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And from the same site, I enjoyed this rant about a New Yorker article about dictionary-making https://languagehat.com/menand-on-the-dictionary/
#dictionaries #lexicography #language #words #MerriamWebster #blog
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And from the same site, I enjoyed this rant about a New Yorker article about dictionary-making https://languagehat.com/menand-on-the-dictionary/
#dictionaries #lexicography #language #words #MerriamWebster #blog
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And from the same site, I enjoyed this rant about a New Yorker article about dictionary-making https://languagehat.com/menand-on-the-dictionary/
#dictionaries #lexicography #language #words #MerriamWebster #blog
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And from the same site, I enjoyed this rant about a New Yorker article about dictionary-making https://languagehat.com/menand-on-the-dictionary/
#dictionaries #lexicography #language #words #MerriamWebster #blog
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https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/
Not all of "Commentary" is superfluous!
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https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/
Not all of "Commentary" is superfluous!
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https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/
Not all of "Commentary" is superfluous!
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https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/
Not all of "Commentary" is superfluous!
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https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/
Not all of "Commentary" is superfluous!
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A few entries from the language section of The Standard Dictionary of Facts, published 1920 and recently purchased by me. Looking forward to reading through all the prescriptivist entries to see what sort of language use people were fretting about over a century ago.
(I particularly love the entry for โdearestโ, which made me laugh out loud.)
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A few entries from the language section of The Standard Dictionary of Facts, published 1920 and recently purchased by me. Looking forward to reading through all the prescriptivist entries to see what sort of language use people were fretting about over a century ago.
(I particularly love the entry for โdearestโ, which made me laugh out loud.)
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A few entries from the language section of The Standard Dictionary of Facts, published 1920 and recently purchased by me. Looking forward to reading through all the prescriptivist entries to see what sort of language use people were fretting about over a century ago.
(I particularly love the entry for โdearestโ, which made me laugh out loud.)
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A few entries from the language section of The Standard Dictionary of Facts, published 1920 and recently purchased by me. Looking forward to reading through all the prescriptivist entries to see what sort of language use people were fretting about over a century ago.
(I particularly love the entry for โdearestโ, which made me laugh out loud.)
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A few entries from the language section of The Standard Dictionary of Facts, published 1920 and recently purchased by me. Looking forward to reading through all the prescriptivist entries to see what sort of language use people were fretting about over a century ago.
(I particularly love the entry for โdearestโ, which made me laugh out loud.)
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Hype for the Future 49D: The Galician Language
In Galicia, the regional language is effectively as if a mix of Spanish and Portuguese. However, the overall syntax of the nation is significantly more akin to Portuguese than Spanish, though the orthography of the Galician language has often been criticized within Galicia for being excessively Castilianized. The regional movement of Reintegrationism in the Galician context attempts to dispel the Castilian concerns regarding linguistic syntax by promoting the idea that Galician and the [โฆ]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/hype-for-the-future-49d-the-galician-language/