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François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺<p>Oxford <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> (OED) Adds US Hispanic Words in Latest Update</p><p>"The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a> already records more than 2,000 words of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spanish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spanish</span></a> origin, with the earliest examples dating as far back as the 14th century. In this update, the OED has added to that total, drawing on words and phrases shared by Hispanic Americans as well as those specific to the three largest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hispanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hispanic</span></a> groups in the US [...]."</p><p><a href="https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/26/orale-oxford-english-dictionary-oed-adds-us-hispanic-words-in-latest-update/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">infodocket.com/2025/03/26/oral</span><span class="invisible">e-oxford-english-dictionary-oed-adds-us-hispanic-words-in-latest-update/</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionaries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lexicography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lexicography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vocabulary</span></a></p>
Georg Weissenbacher<p>Calvinball made it in the Oxford dictionary <a href="https://www.oed.com/dictionary/calvinball_n" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oed.com/dictionary/calvinball_</span><span class="invisible">n</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/oed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oed</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/calvinandhobbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>calvinandhobbes</span></a></p>
Cheshire<p>Gigil, alamak among new words in Oxford English Dictionary<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kj9w2zdlgo?at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_medium=emails&amp;at_objective=awareness&amp;at_ptr_type=email&amp;at_ptr_name=salesforce&amp;at_campaign=newsbriefing&amp;at_email_send_date=20250327&amp;at_send_id=4322238&amp;at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2fnews%2farticles%2fc1kj9w2zdlgo&amp;at_bbc_team=crm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c1kj9w2z</span><span class="invisible">dlgo?at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_medium=emails&amp;at_objective=awareness&amp;at_ptr_type=email&amp;at_ptr_name=salesforce&amp;at_campaign=newsbriefing&amp;at_email_send_date=20250327&amp;at_send_id=4322238&amp;at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2fnews%2farticles%2fc1kj9w2zdlgo&amp;at_bbc_team=crm</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Good to see Northern England getting more explicit recognition from the OED.</p><p>I was also delighted to be reminded of the existence of the word "apeth", which I have not heard in speech for decades, and to learn of its etymology; as a child, I thought it had something to do with apes!</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NorthernEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernEngland</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EnglishPronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishPronunciation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Apeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apeth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionaries</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OxfordEnglishDictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OxfordEnglishDictionary</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.oed.com/discover/pronunciations-from-northern-england/?tl=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oed.com/discover/pronunciation</span><span class="invisible">s-from-northern-england/?tl=true</span></a></p>
infoDOCKET<p>Oxford English Dictionary (<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a>) Adds US Hispanic <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> in Latest Update <a href="https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/26/orale-oxford-english-dictionary-oed-adds-us-hispanic-words-in-latest-update/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">infodocket.com/2025/03/26/oral</span><span class="invisible">e-oxford-english-dictionary-oed-adds-us-hispanic-words-in-latest-update/</span></a></p>
Thomas Adam<p>On <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionaries</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/oed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oed</span></a> </p><p>As I am sure many of you know by now, I love <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/crypticcrossword" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypticcrossword</span></a> -- and I have the relevant associated dictionaries for that: Chambers, Bradmans, etc.</p><p>But what I've been thinking about is the Oxford English Dictionary. It ocured to me that I don't own one. Hmm, and it turns out were I to own one, I'd probably use it a lot.</p><p>So I looked into this, and found the following:</p><p>If I wanted to go top of the line, there's this: </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-English-Dictionary-second-Volumes/dp/0198611862/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.co.uk/Oxford-English-Di</span><span class="invisible">ctionary-second-Volumes/dp/0198611862/</span></a> -- I'm not sure I could justify that much money! But if people are recommending it then... maybe!</p><p>There's also the second edition:<br> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compact-Oxford-English-Dictionary/dp/0198612583" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.co.uk/Compact-Oxford-En</span><span class="invisible">glish-Dictionary/dp/0198612583</span></a></p><p>If I wanted to "slum it", there's this option: </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shorter-Oxford-English-Dictionary-Sixth/dp/0199206872" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.co.uk/Shorter-Oxford-En</span><span class="invisible">glish-Dictionary-Sixth/dp/0199206872</span></a> -- this looks interesting, and a but more compreshensive than your average smaller OED.</p><p>I guess at this point, I'd love to hear any recommendation people have.</p><p>Thanks to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@lgsl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lgsl</span></a></span> for sanity-checking this in the first instance. :)</p>
jb<p>Every time I’m about to note my libraries don’t have a service, I discover that’s wrong. </p><p><a href="https://hackers.town/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/oed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oed</span></a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/supportyourlocallibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>supportyourlocallibrary</span></a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/sfpl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sfpl</span></a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/koln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>koln</span></a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/bibliothek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bibliothek</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>Werner Herzog on the OED, multilingualism, and dead languages. On the blog: <br><a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/werner-herzog-on-the-oed-the-book-of-books/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/05/werner-herzog-on-the-oed-the-book-of-books/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WernerHerzog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WernerHerzog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionaries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/multilingualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multilingualism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memoir</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OliverSacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OliverSacks</span></a></p>
Wen<p>On this day</p><p>James Murray, was born in 1827 in Denholm in the Scottish Borders. Founder and editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, he was head master at the nearby (well three miles) High School in Hawick.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_(lexicographer)" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_</span><span class="invisible">Murray_(lexicographer)</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bookstadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstadon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/JamesMurray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesMurray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Denholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Denholm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Hawick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hawick</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishBorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishBorders</span></a></p>
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)<p>In my blog<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a>: capitalize <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> American</p><p><a href="https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/02/oed-capitalize-black-american/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jackyan.com/blog/2025/02/oed-c</span><span class="invisible">apitalize-black-american/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HartsRules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HartsRules</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>Today in: It's Usually Older Than You Think</p><p>Horace Walpole's "With all sorts of queer feels about me" (correspondence, c.1746) is the oldest recorded use of "feels" as a noun, per OED</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/feels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a></p>
That Word Chat<p>Unlike some WOTY choices, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a> doesn’t rely on lookup data. Instead, they interrogate a 26-billion-word corpus updated monthly, drawn from global web sources, news, sports, and more, to identify surges in usage. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThatWordChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThatWordChat</span></a></p>
That Word Chat<p>The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a>’s 2024 Word of the Year is "brain rot." Fiona McPherson explained how this term, though not new, captures today’s digital reality: the erosion of critical thinking caused by consuming inane content online. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThatWordChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThatWordChat</span></a></p>
That Word Chat<p>Reminder: Tomorrow is <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThatWordChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThatWordChat</span></a>’s Words of the Year 2024 show, featuring:<br>- Mark Gwynn (Australian National Dictionary Centre)<br>- Fiona McPherson (Oxford English Dictionary)<br>- Lynne Murphy (University of Sussex)<br>- Wendalyn Nichols (Cambridge Dictionary)<br>- Peter Sokołowski (Merriam-Webster)<br>- Kelly Wright &amp; Ben Zimmer (American Dialect Society)</p><p>Sign up to attend: bit.ly/ThatWordChat</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WOTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WOTY</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ANDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ANDC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UniversityOfSussex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfSussex</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CambridgeDictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CambridgeDictionary</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MerriamWebster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MerriamWebster</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanDialectSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanDialectSociety</span></a></p>
EditorMark<p>"Access" as a verb meaning to gain entry is widely accepted despite its short life (the Oxford English Dictionary’s earliest reference is 1953). Some still consider it jargony, but the alternatives can be clumsy. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/usage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usage</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a></p>
infoDOCKET<p>Oxford English Dictionary (<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a>) Adds More Than More Than 500 New Words, Phrases, and Senses <a href="https://www.infodocket.com/2025/01/07/oxford-english-dictionary-oed-adds-more-than-more-than-500-new-words-phrases-and-senses/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">infodocket.com/2025/01/07/oxfo</span><span class="invisible">rd-english-dictionary-oed-adds-more-than-more-than-500-new-words-phrases-and-senses/</span></a></p>
Dolls Against Gravity<p>Is there a good soul with access to Oxford English Dictionary who could show me this entry? Pretty please!</p><p>The entry:<br><a href="https://www.oed.com/dictionary/surfactant_n?tab=etymology" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oed.com/dictionary/surfactant_</span><span class="invisible">n?tab=etymology</span></a></p><p>The reason is I have some doubts about the etymology present on this Wikipedia page: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant?wprov=sfla1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfacta</span><span class="invisible">nt?wprov=sfla1</span></a> - why would *surfactant* follow a different pattern than *humectant*? I might be wrong but the Wikipedia entry is sus and may be presenting a marketing ploy as a fact. And that would be less than stellar. 😅</p><p><a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/oed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oed</span></a></p>
Martin Schäfer<p>Follow-up on "brownfield": very satisfying that the OED examples for this compound cover the full range of possible spellings, that is 1. concatenated (= as one word), 2. spaced (brown field), and hyphenated (brown-field). In addition, while "brown-field" only occurs in quotes, the two other variants occur both with and without quotes. <br><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/compoundWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compoundWatch</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/spellingVariation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spellingVariation</span></a></p>
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Såg efter tips från @wizvii "The Professor and The Madman" - mkt bra! Om hur Oxford English Dictionary uppstod bl a, även om psykvård slutet av 1800-talet

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SVT PlayThe Professor and the MadmanEtt verklighetsbaserat drama om professor James Murray som år 1879 antar utmaningen att skapa Oxford English Dictionary, den mest heltäckande ordboken som någonsin sammanställts. Han ber allmänheten om hjälp och under arbetets gång noterar Murray att en man, doktor W.C. Minor, har bidragit med citat och texter till mer än 10 000 ord. Till sin förvåning upptäcker Murray också att Minor sitter inspärrad på ett mentalsjukhus. Regi: Farhad Safinia. I rollerna: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Steve Coogan m.fl.
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