Archive for the 'Dictionary' Category
Celebrating the OED in Oxford
October 12th, 2008Jacket Copy - “The Oxford English Dictionary — OED to friends — is celebrating the 80th anniversary of its 1928 completion next week in Oxford, England.”
-Hyphens
September 27th, 2007Simon Rabinovitch - “About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.