| 单词 | dictionary |
| 例句 | Mr. Read said, “A good idea! A grammar, a New Testament, and a dictionary, eh? I can let you have those in French.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The more books I read, the more I became confident that I could read anything written in English and understand it—as long as I had a dictionary. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At least your dad doesn’t make you read the dictionary. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Today we read a stack of N-words from the dictionary, one by one. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes I discussed the definitions with Dad, and if we didn’t agree with what the dictionary writers said, we sat down and wrote a letter to the publishers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A peek at the entries for these words in any dictionary will show that Macdonald was wrong about the inevitable degeneration of a language that is not policed by lexicographers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Dear Nicholas: If you are reading this letter, it means that the word frindle has been added to the dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He gets up, crosses to the bookshelves, takes down a book from his trove; not the dictionary though. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He prefers money as a concept and often uses terms such as annuity and fiduciary, words definitely not listed in the dictionary of mindless entertainment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He could not even fall back on the pretense that he had come to borrow the dictionary, because in that case Julia’s presence was impossible to explain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The bag dropped from my shoulder and I rested my elbows on the giant dictionary. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He shuffled pages impatiently whenever he had to look something up in one of his dictionaries. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “You still have some work to do on those dictionary skills.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Her parents bought her a dictionary of her own, giving her an advantage in classroom spelling contests. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “If not, my servant will give you the dictionary.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Every graduate of Lincoln Elementary School for the past thirty-five years could remember standing at that table listening to Mrs. Granger’s battle cry: “Look it up. That’s why we have the dictionary.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Monday night’s homework always took forever, because the spelling words were also vocabulary words, and Ms. Udell insisted that each student write an official dictionary definition of each word before using it in a sentence. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He was reading an Italian-English dictionary and had the same huge eyes as the boy. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z When in doubt, consult a usage guide or pick the plural that’s listed first in the dictionary. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And that is why I love the dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Every other word, I'd had to look up in the dictionary. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Ruthanne checked by the pencil sharpener and flipped through the dusty pages of a large dictionary atop a bookshelf. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I never told you I was up half the night with a dictionary looking up words to go with the letters in Daddy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nick grabbed the dictionary and leafed to page 541, his heart pounding. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there was a list of the dictionaries that Mrs. Granger thought would be “acceptable for home study. ” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like I was looking into the dictionary definition of emptiness. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Profesora Shields had given us all pocket-sized Spanish/English dictionaries to carry with us so that we could look things up with ease. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When in doubt, use a real dictionary, and read the fine print. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have dictionaries at school,” she added before going out the door. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It had taken him years to develop a working dictionary of Unseen, and more to unlock the probable pronunciation of its alphabet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "Bionics. And please don't make me look it up in the dictionary." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Every year they fill out questionnaires on pronunciation, meaning, and usage, and the dictionary reports the results in usage notes attached to entries for problematic words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He learned where to place the green-faced lieutenant and the captain, and, high ground being priceless, to set the machine gunner on a book, a children’s dictionary. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Yet another common suffragist strategy was the presentation of pageants, which the dictionary defines as “an elaborate public dramatic presentation that usually depicts a historical or traditional event.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She had said to start my story with the dictionary and this definition in particular. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The chain suggested that some library visitors might take it upon themselves to see that the dictionary circulated. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He just learned as much as he could, starting with all the words in the dictionary, ’cause he couldn’t go anywhere anyway so why not take advantage of his time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “My mother is missing, and my father hands me a dictionary,” Phoebe said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I reached in my purse and pulled out the dictionary, flipping through the pages to find the English word for “help.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z In his youth he’d been a devoted scholar of foreign languages, the owner of an impressive collection of dictionaries. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z English was then still a party favor for me—crack open the dictionary, find out if I'd just been insulted, praised, admonished, criticized. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When my siblings and I were little, Mom used to sit us down, making us read the dictionary from A to Z to learn vocabulary. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z So they applied for U.S. citizenship, sitting up at night reading the Constitution, a dictionary by their side, and studying for the exam. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The movie Malcolm X, which was originally contracted as X: The Movie, shows him learning how to read the dictionary as if he didn’t already know how. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned the entire second grade in advance just by listening to Annie— she was a year older than me—and by hearing Mama Sweetie read from her Bible and her Webster’s dictionary. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I needed to look up whole paragraphs of words in a dictionary. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You sound like Mother telling me to look up a word in the dictionary when I don’t know how to spell it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Easy for a genius to use the dictionary, since he already knows how to spell the words. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z This is the preferred spelling, though dictionaries now accept sherbert as a variant. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His punctuation began to improve, and he was careful to use his spell-checker, plus various online dictionaries and style guides. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He slipped the letter into his Greek-English dictionary and carried both to the incinerator behind the Quonset hut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She could have every dictionary in the world and it wouldn’t be enough to begin to explain the darkness of that space, the fear of being alone like Grace, unwanted like Joaquin. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out “Swine! Swine! Swine!” and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “That’s where you can always find a dictionary of standard English in a library.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I took her the huge dictionary that she had bought as a birthday gift for Daddy Clidell and laid it on the bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Nat wished he had had a grammar and dictionary of their language, too. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no dictionary for these kinds of questions. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Holism is in some of the scientific glossaries but has not yet made it into most standard dictionaries of English. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her, “I’m sure people tell you this constantly, but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary, there would be a picture of you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As she bent down to get a dictionary, someone in the room sniffled. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I looked up the word scandal in my dictionary. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The French toast that the waitress brings is big as a dictionary. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z At the end of the hallway, a huge book, bigger than a dictionary, contained the names of the 103,000 dead from the Netherlands in the Holocaust. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The roll of paper cups laid in for just such an occasion had got squashed flat by a flying dictionary my first day out, but I made coasters from folded paper towels. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You must be able to read thoughtfully, speak clearly, and understand everything,” she’d tell us, and point to a new page in the dictionary. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Making me read the dictionary is best for him, not me. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then I looked up “malignant” in the dictionary. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The dictionary said: Any of the various malignant tumors that arise in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Reader, do you know the definition of the word “chiaroscuro”? If you look in your dictionary, you will find that it means the arrangement of light and dark, darkness and light together. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The usual synonyms—uniqueness, novelty, freshness—do not help us very much, and the dictionaries tell us only that an original work must not be a copy. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I have found that the dictionary doesn’t always explain everything. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I constantly borrowed Mr. Brown’s pocket-size dictionary to look up meanings of words, and would memorize them like arithmetic tables and write them in a small notebook. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The lady tells us it took him twenty years to write the dictionary, and he also wrote the first schoolbooks and grammar books. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I was so fascinated that I went on—I copied the dictionary’s next page. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked up in the dictionary the words I did not know: “self-evident,” “endowed,” “inalienable,” and “pursuit.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, on her way to pick up a dictionary from the back of the room, she dropped a note on George’s desk. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Do you dunk I complained about picking up old lunches that had fungus growing on them and sweeping asbestos tiles and straightening Thorndike dictionaries? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She got herself some basic science textbooks, a good dictionary, and a journal she’d use to copy passage after passage from biology textbooks: “Cell is a minute portion of living substance,” she wrote. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z If you were creating a graphic dictionary and needed a definition of demure, you would use her expression in this picture. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, she jumped up and grabbed her dictionary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The family Bible and a huge dictionary with its own magnifying glass lay side by side next to a red plush album full of cramped formal portraits of my ancestors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The dictionary defines “nativism” as a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z For a kid who had recently gotten detention for throwing paperback dictionaries out our English classroom window, he was maybe not so bad. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Means wolf,” he said, then looked that up in a dictionary. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He points to a collection of essays, mine, out of place among Papa's foreign dictionaries. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “It’s been three years, Jackson. A cat can do a lot of learning in that time. I read the dictionary four times last month.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z So whichever dictionary you choose, read the user manual in the front to see how yours handles multiple or variant pronunciations. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day she would write a different English word on the blackboard and ask the class to look it up in our dictionaries as fast as we could. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A lot of these library experts sounded like dictionaries. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He had heard all about her, and he had seen fifth graders in the library last year, noses stuck in their dictionaries, frantically trying to finish their vocabulary sheets before English class. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I saw Delacruz that afternoon checking a dictionary, making sure to spell correctly all the words in a legal appeal to get his sentence reduced. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he read silently for a while, calling out at intervals, “Mother, what’s ‘offal’?” and, “Where’s that dictionary? Matthew, look up ‘reciprocity.’” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Young brother, if I were you, I’d start with the dictionary.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The third was a dictionary of psychological terms edited by someone called Warren. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He eventually discovered that there were whole dictionaries of slang. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The Webster’s at the New York Public Library stood in the same relation to other dictionaries of my acquaintance as the Empire State Building did to other buildings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Yeah, thanks to my dad, the verbomaniac, I have to read his dictionary of weird words. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In his own dwelling, there were the necessary reference volumes that each household contained: a dictionary, and the thick community volume which contained descriptions of every office, factory, building, and committee. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He had needed something that would explain Freud’s technical terminology, that would clarify the various shades of meaning the German words had—and he had found this dictionary of psychological terms. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Nick looked at the very front of the dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was compelled to read the newspaper longer and to look up more words in the dictionary every day. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Every language arts teacher in the world enjoys making kids use the dictionary: “Check your spelling. Check that definition. Check those syllable breaks.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jesse Aarons. One more peep from your direction and you can spend recess in here. Copying the dictionary.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Well, the first thing I learned is that the first English dictionary—” Mrs. Granger interrupted. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m feeling more anxious because I looked up unfathomable in my pocket dictionary. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z She pulled down a dictionary and leafed through it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “They have dictionaries at school,” said Moon Orchid, thinking this over. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It is long and narrow, the walls covered with shelves that bear identical blue- gray books, thick and heavy as dictionaries. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The makers of these dictionaries were Prescriptivists: they prescribed correct usage. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The codebook was like a dictionary, enabling the code clerk to translate a message into a secret language, comprehensible only to those with access to it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She had tried to read the whole dictionary once, so she knew the definitions of a lot of words that started with “a.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Walter had given to other death row prisoners his fan, a dictionary, and the food items he had in his cell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He has dictionaries of several kinds on the top shelf to the left of the fireplace. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to suggest that we look it up in the dictionary, but Miss Crofts was going right on through the roll. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians go into the closet, and they hear the handles of mops being kicked drunk- enly and a crate of dictionaries go thudding down the stairs, and then someone rattles the knob. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They bought us a dictionary and a full Encyclopaedia Britannica set, which lived on a shelf in the stairwell to our apartment, its titles etched in gold. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I grabbed my worn-out pocket dictionary from the stack and set it next to it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I looked up tragedy in my pocket dictionary. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z And I swear on the dictionary, if Freak ever tries to eat American chop suey again, I'll dump it on his head or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He read voraciously, but would not use a dictionary to look up words he did not know. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In recent years, dictionaries have come to accept a looser usage, meaning “because of” or “on account of”: Richie threw the suit away due to the hole. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Your dictionary can tell you how a word is pronounced, and very often there are more correct ways than one. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All the big words she had to look up in the dictionary crowd her tired head, waiting to show up in the letters she writes me today. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The red Thorndike dictionaries were going to need some help; most of their covers had come off when we stepped onto them to climb higher up the bookshelves. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The book reminds me of the dictionary he gave me for Christmas, except when I open it, all the pages are blank. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z A giant encyclopedia marked A–F squawked at a dictionary. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes if you look a word up in the dictionary, you’ll see some definitions marked as obsolete. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It was both ideas together that moved me to request a dictionary along with some tablets and pencils from the Norfolk Prison Colony school. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had started reading almost as soon as he entered school, struggling at first through the English books by looking up words and phrases in the big dictionary. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you for the dictionary definition, Sticky,” said Mr. Benedict, “and thank you, Reynie, for the translation.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Some dictionaries now accept the upstart “to the manor born” as meaning privileged since birth. tongue in cheek. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This created a backlash that led to Prescriptivist dictionaries such as The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z That evening Dr. Bentley said, “Here you are; a grammar, a dictionary and—by the way, do you know your Bible well?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He makes his eyes go all big and round, so that his face right here and now might as well be in the dictionary alongside puppy dog eyes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z As soon as she was out of sight of the bookshop window, she rested her parcels on the sidewalk and opened the dictionary. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There it was, monster, in black and white, in a battered dictionary in a great city library. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My father forces me to read his dictionary. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And not even the supposedly descriptivist dictionaries leave their users in doubt as to what the standard forms are. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z That in the dictionary under work ethic there is a picture of me? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The dictionary definition of the word is “advice or information aimed at resolving a problem.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z A helpful way of beginning is to look up the word théorie in a series of French dictionaries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A lady talks about what a visionary Noah Webster was to create the first American spellers and dictionaries. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Walowick left the hooch and went looking for a dictionary so he would know if he was going to have to look out for Peewee. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom said, too bad we had to leave our dictionary behind. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Journalists misinterpreted the press release as saying that the dictionary listed ain’t without comment. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She clutched a slip of paper with words she had translated from Polish using her pocket dictionary: “dizzy,” “groin,” “perspiration.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The dictionary, quite reasonably, contained an entry in which people could learn about the word, including, of course, the fact that many speakers disapprove of it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z So I looked up the word “grief” in the dictionary. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z She is a feminist, she tells us and thirty fifth-grade hands bend into desks where our dictionaries wait to open yet another world to us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I started to picture me with a dictionary, looking up words all night long. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Malcolm darted into the sitting room and found the family dictionary. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She always looks worried when I’m at the dictionary so I tell her I’m looking for canonize or beatific or any class of a religious word. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “No, señor,” she said, shaking her head emphatically and pointing to the dictionary, the sole book to survive the pawning of items after Abuelito fell ill. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He stood next to the giant dictionary on its little table, and Mrs. Granger walked to the back of the classroom and sat primly on a tall stool next to the bookcases. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Before coming out here, I took the initiative to look up “candid” in the dictionary. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Funny thing, from the dictionary first page right now, that “aardvark” springs to my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I have a feeling I had to look up more words in the dictionary than he did. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I have to look up even simple words in the dictionary now and it makes me angry with myself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Reading dictionaries like I do helps you do these ducks and dives, but you have to remember who you're talking to. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I pulled up my Latin dictionary to double-check the definition, and that was when I discovered the word had more than one meaning. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But Mrs. Granger didn’t just enjoy the dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course I’m sure, Sal. You can check the dictionary if you want. Do you know what she does for a living—what her job is?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I hadn’t even known I’d been making a grand Negro spectacle out of myself, bawling over a word in the dictionary. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z On its own, it would not serve as the dictionary he needed, but it was filled with cues and gave him an incomplete road map to the minds of the Soviet cryptographers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I spent two days just riffling uncertainly through the dictionary’s pages. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Marcos spent two weeks assembling the contents according to an instruction manual written in English, which he was able to decipher thanks to his invincible imagination and a small dictionary. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Most standard music dictionaries and encyclopedias also focus almost exclusively on Western Classical music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Nick set the envelope down and gently peeled the note off the front of the dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We can always look it up in the dictionary, he said. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab my dictionary and the encyclopedia, Volume B, with the bridges in it. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z "I looked up the word companion once in the dictionary,” I admitted, "and it said ‘a companion is a friend of the bosom.’” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Rafik lay on his bed reading a recently arrived tome of Star Trek wisdom, the Vulcan dictionary. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Francie went to the big dictionary and looked up the word. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Maybe you should read, he adds, and Slides his dictionary closer to you. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And now when I teach them how new words are added to the dictionary, I tell each and every one of them to look up the word frindle. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think it’s in Latin, and I thought maybe ...” I know he has a Latin dictionary. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never seen such a big dictionary before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Hundreds of crates of misprinted dictionaries are stacked in the halls, and the girls burn them page by page in the potbelly stove. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Miss Kinnian told me to look up long words in the dictionary to learn to spell them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They opened the door to find her father, Mr. Smiley, sitting in his armchair flipping through a dog-eared dictionary. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z If the Cassell’s gave him a translation he didn't understand, one that wouldn’t fit the meaning of the sentence, he looked the English word up in the psychology dictionary. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I read the dictionary again with new understanding. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Granger kept a full set of thirty dictionaries on a shelf at the back of the room. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That first night, when the baby had finally fallen asleep in their laps, Mr. and Mrs. McCullough spent two hours flipping through the name dictionary. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Latin dictionary was the first of thirteen thousand volumes which he would eventually buy and, at his death, bequeath to the Boston Public Library. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I like to look up all the hard words in the dictionary and I remember them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z With the help of a dictionary, Robbie had read five pages in a morning and then given up and made do with the illustrations instead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I have to look in the dictionary to find out what a virgin is. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I trusted Merriam because I thought, instead of having children she didn’t want, she wrote the dictionary. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But her pride and joy was one of those huge dictionaries with every word in the universe in it, the kind of book it takes two kids to carry. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some words take on new, unexpected definitions that you can’t find in the dictionary. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In his library, he collected various Russian-English dictionaries and, also, books on Russian grammar and conversation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “How is the dictionary getting on?” said Winston, raising his voice to overcome the noise. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I need a dictionary to talk to you.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I was still wondering where Sister Redempta had come from and what the dictionary might have to say about what manifest meant when I opened Miss Sadie’s gate and plodded up the creaky stairs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z As the bus drove on, I pulled my dictionary from my purse to look up the words I wanted. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z In a fit of defeat, I threw both my phone and the dictionary to the ground, watching them skid and spin across the wet pavement. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Though it’s etymologically illegitimate, octopi is now so common that dictionaries list it as a second choice after octopuses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Chess crossed the room and looked at the two books leaning forlornly against each other: an ancient-looking dictionary and a binder labeled “Computer Manual.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She began to write it all down and compile a dictionary. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I don’t care if they’re gifted and know every word in the dictionary, they still have to give credit for hard work. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm told that he is the smartest boy we've got out there in Greenwood. I'm told that he knows more big words than a pocket-sized dictionary." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like I could ask someone sitting next to me how to spell a word, and I couldn’t just bust out the dictionary, because that would be considered cheating. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Near the door there was an old-fashioned rocking-chair and a small table laid with a pair of shears, a dictionary, and a mandolin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She looked under baby in the dictionary and found little; she looked under birth and found less. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z August 26 Passing Time I study the dictionary because grass and trees do not grow faster just because I stare. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z You’re always fussing at me for not reading your stupid dictionary or cleaning up my room. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I laid my hand on the dictionary and looked at it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I lie in bed, stare up at the ceiling, and think about the dictionary definition of cider—juice pressed from apples. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I took paper, carbon, typewriter, pencils, notebooks, and not only those but dictionaries, a compact encyclopedia, and a dozen other reference books, heavy ones. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the twins, who were having fun exploring the criminal side of language, Juanita had recently discovered the pocket-sized dictionary, and big words flew out of her mouth every day. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Gogol receives several dictionaries, several calculators, several Cross pen-and-pencil sets, several ugly sweaters. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I waited for a response while I fumbled again with the dictionary, searching for any word that might make a difference. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Nick pulled out the D volume from the red set and looked up dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally the dictionary’s A section had filled a whole tablet—and I went on into the B’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Even I knew that a dictionary didn’t have stories. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A few days later Nat was ready to start learning Spanish; he had a dictionary, a grammar, and a New Testament. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he was finished with the kids’ book, he opened up the black encyclopedia and read most of what it said about dictionaries, too. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked up HeLa in my parents’ encyclopedia, then my dictionary: No Henrietta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In five minutes, my carpetbag was packed with a few essentials: Tonic, my magic book, my dictionary, a shawl, and little else. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Omar always wanted one of his own; he said dictionaries contained every word ever uttered. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Of all the things you thought to pack on a quest, you brought a pocket dictionary?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Many online dictionaries include audio icons that you can click to hear the words spoken. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a book of essays about love and the body and one of his words sends me to the dictionary. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You asked for words and I brought them. I suppose the next thing you’ll want me to fetch is a dictionary.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z When I tried to look it up, I couldn’t because awe is in the dictionary and so is pear, but awe pear is not au pair. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And I’ve never been to college,’ she’d say, smiling, when her children asked her to spell words they were too lazy to look up in a dictionary. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Purists are often offended when they learn that this is how dictionaries are written. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The answer can usually be found in the dictionary or in the old set of encyclopedias that are in our living room bookcase. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t tell Salim this because I looked up ‘skewed’ in the dictionary and it said ‘crooked’, which makes it sound as if I am a criminal, which I am not. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Once when I was seven or eight, she started bringing books to me—big old ones like the dictionary and the encyclopedia. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, from California, lying on his bunk in the evenings, so sore he could barely move, Milton consulted a Greek-English dictionary to piece together reports on his navy life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I carried a dictionary with me wherever I went so that I could improve my vocabulary. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab my pocket dictionary and look up suspension. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Many people, particularly sticklers, are under the impression that every bubbe meise ever loosed on the world by a self-proclaimed purist will be backed up by the major dictionaries and manuals. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And now I wish I hadn't said anything about this archetype dude because I hate looking up stuff in his stupid dictionary. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z She handed it to Roy’s father, who read it and said, “I think the tone is exactly right. But you’d better look up ‘arrangement’ in the dictionary.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Anne sang with false joy, “What a perfect description of me. Yes. That’s how a dictionary would define me.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Every home is expected to have a good dictionary in it so that each student can do his or her homework properly. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That you don’t know what to say, given all the words in your dad’s dictionary. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I might study words and create my own dictionary. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z In the 1970s and 1980s linguists applied glottochronological techniques to the Algonkian dictionaries compiled by early colonists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “That’s more like a dictionary than a made-up story,” I said. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If God really aims to punish you, you’ll know it when He sends you not one but two sisters who are younger than you but already have memorized the entire dictionary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Too lazy to crack open a dictionary, they are led by gut feeling and intuition rather than attention to careful scholarship. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I patted his shoulder and told him, “When you look up ‘hilarious’ in the dictionary, there’s a picture of you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They consulted dictionaries to look up correct information about word meanings and grammatical constructions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Ctrl + click gets you the Mac Word dictionary and "Recovery, n., 1. the return to normal health . . . 2. The return to a normal state ... 3. The regaining of something lost or taken away." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z This is a brand-new dictionary, the one I recommend that my students use for their homework. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nick had no particular use for the dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Incidentally I’ve taken your advice and resorted to the dictionary a lot lately, so if it cramps my style your to blame. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z This was a dictionary so huge you needed both hands to manage turning the pages and making the book stay put. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s when Peewee said he was going to HQ hooch where they kept a dictionary. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Amazingly, it survived this as well and was up and running and thought itself home free—when the machine gun opened up from atop the dictionary. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I took the Bible, pencil, paper, and a rhyming dictionary and tried to write verses for hymns. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Reading Room of the New York Public Library I was looking up something in the dictionary. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When I told her I knew a little of the exotic tongues and wished to learn more, she gave me a dictionary of exotic speech. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “You might want to start with a dictionary.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z "He's memorized almost the whole dictionary. You can ask him anything and he knows what it means." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z As dictionaries will tell you, either form is right. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He tossed her the dictionary from her desk and tore down the hall. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “So I looked up nomadic in the dictionary, and it means people who move around, who keep moving, in search of food and water and grazing land.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z There were racks of almanacs, nature books, world records books, old encyclopedias, and dictionaries. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Fd gone straight to the biggest dictionary in the reference section. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I've been thinking maybe you take a break from my dictionary, son. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z To Katie I leave my diary, my dictionary, and my encyclopedia, Which she had better use. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z At home I looked up the word in the dictionary. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Still, it was a wonder Miss Merriam Webster kept everything straight in her dictionary. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Marco must have been studying that dictionary pretty hard, because George understood everything he said. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “I looked up codes online, and there’s one type where you can use a dictionary or some other book.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The speaker carries no pocket dictionary and never suffers the humiliation that inevitably comes with pointing to the menu and ordering the day of the week. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I paused at the thick black dictionary on the bottom shelf. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I read the rules and looked up all the big words in a dictionary. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked the editor of the dictionary how he and his colleagues decide what goes into it, he replied, “We pay attention to the way people use language.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As I slowly inched along the wall and away from the door, my hand brushed across the pages of the still open dictionary. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The book was thick, thicker than any dictionary. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary—to study, to learn some words. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “At three years old, the only item on Rae’s Christmas list was a dictionary.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Word processors have dictionaries, but not common sense—at least not yet. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to look up the word in the dictionary and was relieved to find out it didn't mean I had problems. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Perhaps there would even be a message concealed somewhere in the dictionary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Still, those notions of good fortune and chance have blended so much that dictionaries now accept a hybrid definition—something fortuitous is a happy accident. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn't known what factitious meant, so I looked it up in the dictionary. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Oh yes, I already know a little English; just to prove it I’m reading An Ideal Husband with the help of a dictionary! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He slammed the dictionary shut and walked downstairs. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Those with the most “currency” can cross from the food section to the book section, where old Khmer, Chinese, French, or English dictionaries and novels can be bought with several kilograms of rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Reading magazines took Deborah a long time because she had to stop often to look words up in her dictionary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And if you don't believe me, look under "grim" in the dictionary, it sure doesn't say "a smart grown-up." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z It starts with A, just, like a regular dictionary, but as Freak said, it's different. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “Now, besides the fact that the dictionary is hopelessly sexist and it should have said 'himself or herself...’ The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I spent more time alone pondering my life, reading my New World Encyclopedia, my dictionary, and my Bible. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A dictionary buff, a devotee of obscure words, he had been intent on improving his companion’s grammar and expanding his vocabulary ever since they had celled together at Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, the dictionary says we can use lame adverbs like uglily, friendlily, surlily, and jollily, but nobody says we have to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Kim ever so slightly rolled her eyes, which made me want to throw a dictionary at her. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If you’re unsure about the plural of an 0 word, look it up in the dictionary. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry asked, watching her lifting books as she searched for her rune dictionary. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He stuffed a Latin-English dictionary into his saddlebag while the Frank Sinatra music oozed from his boom box. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They’d write back defending their position, which would prompt an even longer letter from Dad, and if they replied again, so would he, until we stopped hearing from the dictionary people. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She looks like she’s holding in a dictionary of bad words or a nuclear war. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Ignatius had bought a large, elegant, limited edition of the English translation, and all fifteen dollars of its price hit Patrolman Mancuso in the head with the force of a dictionary. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, all they found inside were textbooks, dictionaries, and old encyclopedias. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I keep looking in dictionaries under those syllables. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This is best experienced by looking them up, preferably in one of the dictionaries that provide all the roots back to the original, hypothetical fossil language of proto-Indo-European, and observing their behavior. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But over the centuries, the differences between gantlet and gauntlet have become fuzzy, and today’s dictionaries say gauntlet will do for all occasions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah,” he said, “We have an old Alexander dictionary, of course, and then there’s Webster’s and Worcester’s, which are more up-to-date.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z You sprained your ankle on a dictionary while moonwalking with Michael Jackson. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The powerlessness of dictionaries to enforce the prescriptivists’ dream of preventing linguistic change does not mean that the dictionaries are doomed to preside over a race to the bottom. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z You can look up what they all mean in a dictionary. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Don’t bother with your dictionary I will tell you. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z "Exactly," Freak says, "but different, because this is my dictionary. Go on and look inside." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, we treat facts as if they are equivalent to things, and dictionary definitions of ‘fact’ slide between defining facts as things and defining them as true beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I pretend to understand, but in the dictionary it says “go” and “going” mean action, moving, and lots of other things like business transactions. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He hands her a dictionary, a journal, a magazine full of photographs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z All English dictionaries, he declared, were vestiges of the same British tyranny that the American Revolution destroyed forever. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Reaching into his book bag, Nick pulled out the red dictionary he had brought from home, the one most of the kids had—the one Mrs. Granger said they should use. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z First he looked up the definitions in the brand-new red dictionary that his mom had bought—because Mrs. Granger told her to. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the elevator, she pressed against Zakariyya, one hand leaning on her cane, the other gripping her tattered dictionary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Was there a word in Uncle Chester’s big dictionary to describe what I was feeling? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z So we played euchre on a dictionary balanced on his lap, and when that started to prove a bit much we switched to Casino. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Two nights before the first communion, Father Antonio Isabel closeted himself with him in the sacristy to hear his confession with the help of a dictionary of sins. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Though some dictionaries now accept “ wile away,” which began as a spelling error, I’ll stick to the original. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls are bookcases to the ceiling, boxes of pamphlets and separates, books of all kinds, dictionaries, encyclopedias, poetry, plays. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Reverend Theodore Parker, who when a boy bought a Latin dictionary with the first money he ever earned, was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Boston Vigilance Committee. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Medical dictionaries are full of unusual and frightening illnesses, but this one seems especially cruel. Review: ‘Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury,’ a Documentary of Dementia 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The only dictionary I want to read is the A-to-Z guide of pasta. An A-to-Z guide to every single type of pasta 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z “So many people use our website as their principal dictionary and we want it to be current,” Sokolowski said. Swole, buzzy, among new words in Merriam-Webster dictionary 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Here's a "life hack" for all you "wordies" out there: If you want to stay abreast of linguistic trends, take a look at the 850 new words Merriam-Webster has added to its dictionary. In this dumpster-fire of a year, Merriam-Webster has embiggened its dictionary 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, Lustig does not provide a footnote to indicate which dictionary he was using. Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig – review 2013-01-25T10:00:01Z It is a rare dictionary that bothers entering terms that are explicitly outside its remit, but these entries serve the genuinely useful purpose of giving the editors a place to discuss their status as non-Canadianisms. A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z “I was very careful with the dictionary, finding that word ‘affiliated,’” adding, “After all, I was an English major.” Writer’s claims to native heritage are questioned after PEN Center USA names his book a finalist 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “He was always checking dictionaries, always talking about words,” she recalled. Maucha Adnet sings Antonio Carlos Jobim at the Triple Door | Concert preview 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Merriam-Webster said the top words looked up in its online dictionary on Wednesday were: insurrection, fascism, impeach and sedition. Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Kelly, who specializes in writing about etymology, points to other examples of words that went through the wasei-eigo machine and ended up back in English dictionaries. The Surprising History Behind the Word 'Pokémon' 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z “They don’t question the authority at all. Whereas the old feminist way was to try to deconstruct the whole authority of the dictionary.” ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Made in 1968, when Mr. Kosuth was a young turk of Conceptualism, it consists of the dictionary definition of “holly,” cut out and pasted to a piece of paper. Art Review: ‘Hooray for Hollywood!’ Recalls Holly Solomon’s Eye for Art 2014-01-16T22:48:08Z I wonder which of these terms the dictionary editors of 1959 would use for the dictionary editors of today. Gene Weingarten: The latest weapon in his war on ‘terror’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z “The word ‘date’ should almost be stricken from the dictionary,” Ms. Silver said. The End of Courtship? 2013-01-11T21:56:39Z The man with the beat-up dictionary asked about particular words, like “handsome” and “rich,” reading aloud to us their definitions and posing sophisticated questions about usage. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z TL;DR: An influential dictionary added a bunch of crazy new words. ICYMI, the Oxford English Dictionary added new words, and TBH, it's getting wacky 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The new edition of the Scrabble dictionary is available online, and in hardcover and paperback. You Can Play ‘Sheeple’ in Scrabble Now. Over 300 Other New Words, Too. 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Then: Going to a dictionary to find out what “online” means. Style Invitational Week 1262: Clue us in 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z I once met a very interesting guy from the OED who was fed up with people misunderstanding what a dictionary is. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Told through letters, diary entries, dictionary definitions and historical documents, the novel builds a fascinating story centered on gender politics. Best science-fiction and fantasy books, December edition 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Massive dictionaries, writing manuals, anything that can inform his fixation with words, with the intricacies of their meanings and the ways they can be deployed. A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z I’ve never written a poem or a song lyric but I bought the dictionary when I was translating the libretto of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” five years ago. Roddy Doyle Scored 8 Out of 10 on a Quiz About Roddy Doyle 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Before that, the game's rules called for any desk dictionary to be consulted. Scrabble dictionary adds 'OK,' 'ew' to official play along with hundreds of other new words 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Some may fade away and never make it into the dictionary. Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z I was employed as a general dogsbody in the department of Oxford University Press where they compile dictionaries for learners of English, for which I earned £4.50 an hour. Gap-year travel won't broaden the mind ? it just turns the young into fantasists 2011-01-09T00:05:35Z If you are nearly anyone else, you will hunger for HBO to get back to the business of languages for which we already have a dictionary. Television Review: A Fantasy World of Strange Feuding Kingdoms 2011-04-14T21:32:03Z Other words in the leading dictionary maker's Top 10 for 2012 were also politically motivated. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z It is associated with an anticonsumerist and anticapitalist approach to sustainable development — the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as “decrease in mass of an organism especially at the end of a prolonged period of growth.” At Museums, Maybe It’s Time for ‘De-growth’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The project’s companion book opens with a playful riff on a dictionary definition that basically omits all the nouns. Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Though some American dictionaries accept Obama’s mangling as a secondary pronunciation, the Oxford English makes it quite clear: “-ide” verbs, like divide, take the long “i” sound when made into adjectives. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leading the fight against mispronunciations 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z You would expect that some of the money spent on this album could have bought a rhyming dictionary, but perhaps they blew the budget on guest stars. Justin Bieber's Believe: The Pop Prince Comes of Age 2012-06-19T10:45:48Z Unto the breach steps Edward McClelland’s “How to Speak Midwestern,” a dictionary wrapped in some serious dialectology inside a gift book trailing a serious whiff of Relevance. ‘How to Speak Midwestern,’ Edward McClelland’s Regional Guide 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z For clumsy, weedy kids like me who spent hours alone reading the dictionary, the silver-tongued, homely Cyrano opened a glorious new vista on possibilities for becoming a hero. Review: James McAvoy’s Rapping Cyrano Dazzles With Words 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Yet this petition raises another issue, too: What is a dictionary’s job? Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Whatever I reported on my steno machine is going into software that matches it to words in the English dictionary. For this court reporter, self-care includes doing squats during breaks in testimony 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Where serious reference dictionary editors do have power, she says, is in the choice of example sentences. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z In certain moments, airports certainly conjure up that other definition of romance, inspiring “a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life,” as a dictionary puts it. Analysis | Pete Buttigieg is right. Airports are romantic. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z These 50 words, for use in this week’s word chain contest, are among those recently added by Merriam-Webster to its Scrabble dictionary. Style Invitational Week 1299: OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z In Week 1350 we asked you to write a poem featuring one of dozens of terms added in the past year to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. Style Invitational Week 1354: As the Word Turns 5 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z One day, I found him in his room, his study I suppose, and he was looking at all these dictionaries – Dutch, German, Swedish – and taking notes. William Leith: Ten seconds before my father's death 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z In one small gallery Mr. Kosuth recreates the 1968 debut of his signature dictionary definitions: the word defined is “nothing,” in 10 entries ranging from almost that to quite a bit more. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z The most commonly used dictionaries, whether in print or digital, reflect what is known as “descriptive lexicography,” meaning that editors study the way people use words and determine their meaning based on that evidence. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z While members waited in line for new book assignments in the society’s headquarters in the Corner Room, an actress asked them to help her edit the dictionary, another formerly forbidden book. ArtsBeat: Where Humbert Humbert Might Whisper in Your Ear 2014-04-15T21:39:23Z I honestly thought people would buy the dictionary and look through and laugh and that would be end of it. Klingon goes boldly beyond "Star Trek" into pop culture 2012-11-02T11:17:37Z One dictionary definition of the word indicates that it serves as a descriptor for things that are "unrealistically simplified." How McDonald's Szechuan Sauce went from a "just fine" '90s relic to a riot-causing cult condiment 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z There is even an adjective for his distinctive, dystopian themes in the Collins English dictionary: Ballardian. JG Ballard archive acquired for British Library 2010-06-10T15:10:00Z Fundamentalist groups, for instance, have tried to have dictionaries banned because of definitions offered for words like hot, tail, ball and nuts. Critic?s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You 2011-01-06T23:26:12Z Like Anana’s father, the dictionary editor, I shiver at the pleasure of identifying the right word. Reading in an Emergency 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Among the “64 arts” a woman should master are “improvisation of poetry; knowledge of dictionaries; knowledge of prosody” and “reciting difficult verses.” Books of The Times: The Kama Sutra, Newly Translated 2012-01-31T17:03:33Z The general director of Le Robert editions, Charles Bimbenet, jumped to the dictionary’s defense Wednesday in a statement. Sparks fly as neutral pronoun included in French dictionary 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z On one case, a dictionary definition is printed backward so that it will be readable when someone takes a selfie with the camera cases pointed at a mirror. Your Instagram Picture, Worth a Thousand Ads 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The term “spork” is first recorded in a dictionary in 1909, though the first patent for one was only issued in 1970. Consider the spork 2012-10-06T16:00:00Z Ms. Gomez’s mother was an entertainer, too — in photos, she’s the dictionary picture of a blond bombshell — who sometimes worked with her father and at other times fought with him or ignored him. Review: ‘Latin Standards,’ When Dad Was Larger Than Life 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Vigorous social media campaigns have been mounted to counteract negative perceptions and pejorative dictionary definitions of them. In London, Cheetos Tans and a Codpiece Are in Fashion 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Autocorrect originated with word processing programs of the 1980s, in which the language used was checked against a dictionary to make sure the spelling was correct. When Autocorrect Goes Wrong (And So, So Right) 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z And he "helps" them by handing out rhyming dictionaries? Seriously, Kurt and Blaine finally kiss on "Glee" -- but so what? 2011-03-16T13:17:00Z Virescence, the state or condition of becoming green, is one of many words in this novel that sent me to the dictionary. ‘The Blue Guitar’ review: An artist’s heartbreaking crisis 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The story misses the clinical bravado of David Mamet’s heists, the psychosexual menace of “The Grifters,” or — despite opening with a dictionary definition — the crooked community described in the David Maurer classic “The Big Con.” ‘Sharper’ Review: The Big Con 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction,” the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, in 1839. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z At the end of the day, sweaty and tired, I read, almost word by word, his short stories with the help of a tiny dictionary. Letters to the Travel Editor 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “My child, if you spend as much money on cookbooks as you do on dictionaries, your family would be better off,” Mrs. Gordon, in an interview with The Associated Press last year, recalled her saying. Bernice Gordon, Who Toyed With Words, Dies at 101 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The online dictionary has been featuring a "word of the year" since 2010 and uses data collected search traffic, among other statistics, to choose. 'Existential,' 'Climate Emergency' chosen as Words of the Year 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z “I read a dictionary and I read the Bible.” In the Garden: Thea Alvin on Life With Pebbles and Bam Bam 2013-07-17T23:02:03Z There’s no doubt, though, that “Webster’s Third” transformed the role of the dictionary in modern America, even questioning its own authority. ‘The Story of Ain’t’: the controversial overhaul of Webster’s international dictionary 2012-12-07T00:23:03Z Children will learn more than the dictionary definition in this workshop for ages 6 and older at the Skyscraper Museum. Spare Times — For Children for June 22-29 2012-06-21T22:00:06Z The Oxford art dictionary hedges its bets, defining kitsch as "art, objects or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way ..." Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z We might be able to highlight, look up, annotate and bookmark with the swipe of a finger, but we already did all that with paper books, ballpoint pens and forest-felling, brick-thick dictionaries. For young readers, the book's the thing whatever technology may bring 2012-06-13T14:41:01Z So all of the beginnings of computer science were working on dictionaries, because dictionaries, of course, are structured in the perfect way with these fields. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z And then suddenly these guys are playing this dictionary game. “A lifetime of fighting fires, drinking beer and eating red meat”: The author of “Wildfire” on what it takes for a woman to make it on a hotshot crew 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z "There has never been, and never will be, a dictionary that includes all the words in English," Merriam-Webster said on its website. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z She often arrived before dawn — dictionary, thesaurus and bottle of dry sherry in tow — and wrote longhand on yellow legal pads. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86 “Not so,” I said, pausing to look through the dictionary. Why We Travel: Readers Share Their Stories 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z He mentions cycling, but his exercise still seems to derive from sentence construction, prying out lazy words, rummaging through dictionaries and wringing suspense from unlikely moments, as when he extends his Orange Trapper. In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The brothers could perhaps benefit from looking up the dictionary definition of gaslighting. Cuomo's insulting sexual harassment apology shows just how little he thinks of women 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z On this week's podcast, a big show for the Book Review's big holiday issue, with discussions about the notable books, the Stones, a dictionary controversy, Joseph Cornell, the Dallas Cowboys, Shakespeare apps and best-seller news. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The Rolling Stones Turn 50 2012-11-30T19:00:54Z He said he opened up the dictionary, and put in swearwords for the first time. Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words, book claims 2012-11-26T20:17:22Z Mallory is updating the dictionary’s language and helping to digitize it. In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Holly claims all they need is faith, but I think they might need a good pocket dictionary, too. True Blood 4x10: Bloodbath at the Tolerance Festival 2011-08-29T11:30:00Z Vocally on his game, Jagger was enough to wake up the show and remind five decades worth of Stones fans why this man is the dictionary definition of "rock star." Grammy's 10 greatest moments 2011-02-14T14:01:00Z The world he depicts is terrible, in every dictionary sense — both horrifying and awe-striking. Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Colbert’s “truthiness” was a word so powerfully descriptive that the definition he suggested made its way into the dictionary. The Best Bit of Steve Carell’s Turn on “S.N.L.” This Week 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The way the word is now used, you don’t have to hate women to be a misogynist, despite what Webster’s dictionary still says today. What Does Misogyny Look Like? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Her favorite dictionary is Webster’s Seventh, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Long Hot Summer of Grammar 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Shapiro said some pronunciation disputes are settled by the dictionary. ‘Jeopardy!’ Tells Contestant: A ‘Gangster’ Is Not a ‘Gangsta’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z On Wednesday morning, the dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster posted on its website that searches on the word had surged. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z "If it's a teaching moment, and you don't have a dictionary or reference book handy, then, yes, it's OK to Google at dinner." Googling at dinner? Sometimes it's OK 2010-12-12T16:40:00Z With just ten thousand entries, the O.J.D. is a sampler for developing minds, not a comprehensive catalogue of the language; a typical college-level dictionary contains about fifteen times as many words. Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops "Acorn" for "Broadband" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z When a new word like “grok” appears or the meaning of a word like “marriage” expands, as it has recently, readers need not wait for years for a new print dictionary. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Some of the words have been around for decades, but are included in the dictionary because of increased usage. Swole, buzzy, among new words in Merriam-Webster dictionary 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Some songs used phrases picked out of English dictionaries or nonsense syllables yelped as background vocals, but others confronted violence and anger with taunting confidence. Marlene Marder, Guitarist for Liliput, Dies at 61 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for ‘integrity’ in the dictionary,” she said, going on to explain: “ ‘Truthful’ doesn’t really cover it, or ‘genuine.’ Rashida Jones Writes a New Part for Herself 2012-08-01T15:19:07Z The verbal parallels sometimes seem to me obvious — one doesn’t need a dictionary to know that dogs fawn — and at other times tenuous. ‘Shakespeare’s Beehive’ review: Are these notes and scribbles the Bard’s? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z She exposed a Black cultural way of speaking that we call code switching, which the Urban dictionary defines as customizing “style of speech to the audience or group being addressed.” LaChanze on the Personal Resonance of Alice Childress’s Timeless Words 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z He struggles to simplify his views: “I can’t even get an acceptable definition in my Webster’s dictionary.” ‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The inclusion of illustrative quotations, instead of just definitions and the like, make such dictionaries distinctive, and useful, in that they illustrate the actual history of words through these examples. A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Each time commentators rebuke the O.E.D. for admitting teenage slang or marketing jargon, they misunderstand the dictionary, which aims not to define how language should be used, only how it is. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z As with every dictionary update, the words that are added are signs of the times, reflecting what we’re talking about and how we’re talking about it. Merriam-Webster Adds 'FOMO,' 'Mx.' and 2,000 Other Words 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z An 1844 version of Noah Webster’s dictionary is here too, in which lunch is defined as “a portion of food taken at any time, except at a regular meal.” Exhibition Review: ‘Lunch Hour NYC’ Opens at the New York Public Library 2012-06-22T22:04:35Z Though Sokolowski’s tweets about the words being searched get some derisive comments — saying the searchers are dumb, can’t spell, or both — he is heartened to see that people still trust and turn to the dictionary. For many people, the search for meaning in the coronavirus pandemic starts with the dictionary 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Stretch your tongue muscles and dust off your dictionaries, Melville fans. How to Speak Whale 2012-11-15T22:47:39Z Ms. Messing, an Emmy winner for “Will & Grace” who has performed Off Broadway, described plumbing Mr. Wittman’s rhyming dictionary for her character’s work as a lyricist. Television: ?Smash? on NBC, About Broadway, With Katharine McPhee 2012-01-19T17:14:32Z Martin’s account of the dictionary feuds of the 19th century is as lively and entertaining as the battle itself. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z But stressing the second syllable became so mainstream that dictionaries eventually validated the pronunciation. Eleven common words you're probably mispronouncing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Assuming that his personality will be the sum of his affectations, he tries smoking a pipe, "listening to French crooners" and scanning the dictionary for obscure words that speak to his condition. Submarine: From Teen Angst to Pure Delight 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z On the right side are marginalia from diverse sources, such as dictionaries and recipe books. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The dictionary is part of a race against time to revitalise the language before it is definitively too late. Language at risk of dying out ? the last two speakers aren't talking 2011-04-13T18:10:00Z Around the same time as Flaubert's dictionary there emerged perhaps the best-known example of the form, and one which celebrates its centenary this year: Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary. The indefinable charm of satirical dictionaries 2011-03-01T12:07:50Z Merriam-Webster announced the latest additions to the company’s unabridged dictionary on Wednesday. Merriam-Webster Adds 'FOMO,' 'Mx.' and 2,000 Other Words 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The dictionary notes that the earliest recorded use of the word with its current meaning was in an 1881 complaint about "the constant and facile clichés of diction." Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The dictionary defines it as "a history or background story . . . created for a fictional character", before adding "esp. in a film or television series". Small Island by Andrea Levy 2011-01-08T00:08:00Z “We were out walking the dog, and I saw a number of neighbors and friends on the walk. And they’re all saying, ‘Hey, we saw the news about the dictionary!’” Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z During our conversation he used the words “slippage” and “surd,” the last of which sent me to the dictionary. Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z He read “In Search of Lost Time” alongside two academic guidebooks, full of notations in French, and a dictionary. Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z The labels originally came from another sprawling collection of data called WordNet, a kind of conceptual dictionary for machines built by researchers at Princeton University in the 1980s. ‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You? 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z If we look up nostalgia in any standard dictionary, we find something like the following, taken from the World English Dictionary: The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z And second as a reminder: No matter how much you love it, a dictionary cannot solve problems for which it was not designed. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The new words appear today in the third edition of the single volume dictionary, which was first published in 1998. Climate change and the vuvuzela leave mark on Oxford Dictionary of English 2010-08-18T23:01:00Z And this dictionary was going to be different from everything before it, because previous dictionaries had not necessarily been based on descriptive data, meaning they had been quite prescriptive rather than descriptive. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The dictionary definition is not particularly helpful: “printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate sexual excitement.” The Renaissance origin of porn: Inside “I Modi,” the 16th-century sex manual masterpiece 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z My father had been a teenage war refugee from North Korea, who had taught himself to read English with a dictionary and some books, and who practiced speaking by running errands for American soldiers. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Another section, devoted to the Anglo-Indian dictionary known as “Hobson-Jobson,” reminds us that South Asia gave English not just words like “chutney” and “nirvana” but also “cummerbund,” “khaki” and “shampoo.” ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The Style Invitational has been abetting Chris’s mission once a year since the infancy of OEDILF.com in 2004, with a contest for limericks that featured words from some sliver of the dictionary. Style Invitational Week 1396: Hail to Limerixicon XVII! 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Also what I had was a rhyming dictionary. John Mulaney and Seth Meyers Fondly Send Up Sondheim. He’s Amused. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Richards even won the tournament’s French equivalent in 2015 and 2018, despite not speaking the language, after studying the French dictionary for nine weeks. Scrabble casts spell over Asia with Welsh hugs and mustard seeds 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Classics like charades and the dictionary game — sometimes called Fictionary, and tweaked for the unimaginative under the brand name Balderdash — call at most for paper and pencils. Down to the Sea Again, Impersonating Writers 2011-07-01T16:12:05Z According to dictionary compilers, the word aerodrome is one of the words vanishing from use. Dictionary compilers create endangered words list 2011-08-21T18:25:27Z The day before the dictionary went live, Sheidlower was still fiddling with that definition. Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The dictionary tends to choose neologisms that gain mass usage. 'Culture' gets nod as Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z And this week, courtesy of our pals over at Merriam-Webster, we bring you these 35 new terms that were among those added just this past Tuesday to its online dictionary. Style Invitational Week 1296: A, we’re adorbs — a poetry contest 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z As a student, I would get stoned and read dictionaries for hours. William Leith: Ten seconds before my father's death 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z Merriam-Webster's latest edition of the Scrabble dictionary has 300 new additions, and thus 300 new ways for Grandma to completely bury you during a game of Scrabble. Scrabble dictionary adds 'OK,' 'ew' to official play along with hundreds of other new words 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z When we’re searching for meaning, we know where to go: the dictionary. For many people, the search for meaning in the coronavirus pandemic starts with the dictionary 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The young index-card-shuffling assistant demonstrated a real way with words: in 1993, he was named Chief Editor—only the seventh in the dictionary’s long and storied history. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z There are only about 50 lexicographers working at dictionary companies in the United States today, Ms. Stamper estimated. A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z One guide offers a list of what you'll need that includes time, patience, a dictionary and a highlighter. Tough tomes: are challenging books worth the effort? 2010-06-29T10:46:00Z Once he got his claw stuck in the spine of a dictionary, which he dragged around for quite a while until he fell asleep next to it, unbothered and still attached. All Black Cats Are Not Alike 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The OED was designed to be different from the other authoritative dictionaries. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z In the novel there is this great game, the dictionary game. “A lifetime of fighting fires, drinking beer and eating red meat”: The author of “Wildfire” on what it takes for a woman to make it on a hotshot crew 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Look up the term “Renaissance man” in the dictionary, and chances are, Dee Snider’s visage will be right there next to the definition. Dee Snider’s still not gonna take it: “I don’t know what ‘great’ [Donald Trump’s] talking about. Is that when we had two sinks, colored and white?” 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The dictionary is not only difficult to produce, but also to use. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting) 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z At a party Roman Polanski called him "the redundant actor", and Lazenby joked he went to look the word up in a dictionary. James Bond films' history as dramatic as the movies 2012-10-04T09:30:27Z Mariposa says that she never really went to school, and taught herself to read while incarcerated, by memorizing long stretches of the dictionary. A Play That Confronts the Horror of Solitary Confinement 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z You won’t find the title of last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother in the dictionary — but the doesn’t mean it’s not a specific word for a specific thing. 11 Terms Invented by How I Met Your Mother 2013-11-12T23:22:29Z A dictionary is never neutral, says Lindsay Rose Russell, an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois and the author of Women and Dictionary Making. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Just a few months ago, editor Dent announced that the dictionary would consider adding the Mx. title. Civilities: Is it time to include ‘Mx.’ in the mix with ‘Ms.’ and ‘Mr.’? 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Because of the new national identity, Webster conceived of a standard-setting dictionary that might eliminate regionalism and affirm Americanized versions of British spellings. Exhibition Review: ‘1812: A Nation Emerges,’ at National Portrait Gallery 2012-06-25T21:40:37Z But from our point of view, it’s important to have the dictionary as up-to-date as you can. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z A dictionary is just a book, a product, no different from Fifty Shades of Grey and only slightly better written. Why we need to invent new words 2013-03-11T08:29:01Z Shortly thereafter, the New York Times published a story citing MSG as responsible for symptoms people experienced after eating Chinese food; in 1993 "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" even took up official residence in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Where do we stand with MSG? 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Gould points to “career”, in his prized Webster’s dictionary, as having derived from a Spanish word meaning “obstacle course”. ‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z But over the years, the word remained mostly spoken and rarely printed, so it lacked the criteria for inclusion in the dictionary. Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z We seek comfort in a dictionary’s defining, prescriptive advice while also demanding that a dictionary accurately reflect our language as it’s commonly used, and allow us to stretch words into energized new meanings. ‘The Story of Ain’t’: the controversial overhaul of Webster’s international dictionary 2012-12-07T00:23:03Z I have numerous encyclopedias; I have many, many dictionaries. Fran Lebowitz: By the Book 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Indeed, contemporary British slang dictionaries define “shiksa” as an American idiom. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z Whether popular, corporate or entitled, "culture" was named word of the year by U.S. dictionary Merriam-Webster on Monday as a flexible catch-all that can easily identify a subject, idea or issue. 'Culture' gets nod as Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z We learn this, usefully for us if implausibly for her, when she looks up her condition in the dictionary. La MaMa Festival Is Still Moving, if Somewhat in Place 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z While checking the results from the preliminary test, officials realized that their official dictionary listed alternative spellings for two of the words. After 1st vocab test, Spelling Bee gets a champion 2013-05-30T18:32:12Z There is a Valyrian grammar, a dictionary containing thousands of words, and even separate dialects for the various Valyrian-descended cultures that exist in the show. How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z And did you know that the Brothers Grimm when not collecting fairy tales worked on a great etymological dictionary of the German language? ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Tom Sawyer went through many reads, as did — believe it or not — key dictionary entries. Modern Love: Modern Love: A Spanking Fetish Is Not Revealed Easily 2012-11-09T17:47:12Z Scorsese called “The Bellboy,” Lewis’s first feature as a director, “a virtual dictionary of visual thought.” Jerry Lewis the Auteur 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z It reminds me of a dictionary entry for “detritus” that I copied down in a notebook: “the pieces that are left when something breaks, falls apart, is destroyed, etc.” The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Not that we don’t deplore a world in which acorn and cygnet are omitted from the top 10,000 words, but I’m not sure the dictionary is the hill to die on in that fight. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z And finally, the dictionary is for some reason fanatically determined to precisely parse degrees of human stupidity. Gene Weingarten: The latest weapon in his war on ‘terror’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z In the internet age when it’s sometimes difficult to determine whether the vast amounts of information we’re exposed to is accurate, the dictionary is a rock, Sokolowski said. Swole, buzzy, among new words in Merriam-Webster dictionary 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The dictionary also cited the entertainment industry as a possible reason for the spike in searches for the word, citing the popularity of the Hulu series “The Handmaid's Tale” and the blockbuster film “Wonder Woman.” Feminism is word of the year, Merriam-Webster announces 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Just so, the dictionary offers a picture of how we’re using language. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Simon Winchester, author of two books on the O.E.D., including the 1998 best seller “The Professor and the Madman,” expressed mixed feelings about the rapidly digitizing dictionary. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z New words are added to the Merriam-Webster Scrabble dictionary if they are found in a standard dictionary, in particular, Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary. You Can Play ‘Sheeple’ in Scrabble Now. Over 300 Other New Words, Too. 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Slightly less quotidian is the phrase dictionary attack, which describes an attempt to gain illicit access to a computer system by using an enormous set of words to generate potential passwords. Climate change and the vuvuzela leave mark on Oxford Dictionary of English 2010-08-18T23:01:00Z He wasn't in the biographical dictionaries, or in art auction records, so they deemed him a nobody, Falk says. Brother rescues 400 lost works from storage unit by late Spanish artist Gil Cuatrecasas 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “Her pursuit of Italian is about something far bigger than synonyms or dictionaries or nouns,” Benjamin Moser writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z The additions to the U.S. dictionary reflect the growing influence of technology and social networking, the company said. Webster's dictionary adds 'selfie,' 'tweep,' 'turducken' 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z In the early nineteen-sixties, a passel of newspapers and magazines mounted a cultural jihad against a dictionary. Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops "Acorn" for "Broadband" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Her answer: “If he’s famous enough, he’ll be in our big dictionary!” Letters to the Editor 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z They’d also be surprised by the amount of nonfiction I read, other than dictionaries. By the Book: Laurie Halse Anderson 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Max Stafford-Clark directs an evening of witty repartee that celebrates the life and work of the 18th-century essayist, poet and compiler of the first English dictionary. This week's new theatre 2011-02-19T00:05:55Z So he plunged, again, into fiction and nonfiction period sources and dictionaries “of strange origins.” ‘The Lighthouse,’ with Robert Pattinson, illuminates Cannes 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Confusion over its evolving meaning is a good reason to look up “culture” in the dictionary, but so is an interest in understanding the world and making it better. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Urban dictionary defines a "lick" as "a successful type of theft which results in an acceptable, impressive and rewarding payday for the protagonist." Schools warn students destroying campus property as part of ‘devious’ TikTok trend: ‘Charges may be filed’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z My dictionary got some use as I watched the episode. Boardwalk Empire Watch: A New Jimmy? 2012-10-08T12:00:35Z And structurally, "Sudden Death" isn't normative: a short screenplay and the author's emails are interspersed with short entries from obscure sporting dictionaries and excerpts from humanist classics. Aztec and European empires collide in the strange and bloody 'Sudden Death' by Álvaro Enrigue 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The new dictionary introduces “qapik,” which means “a monetary subunit of the manat” in Azerbaijan. You Can Play ‘Sheeple’ in Scrabble Now. Over 300 Other New Words, Too. 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Far from my dictionary’s fling, “unrestrained pleasures or dissipation,” this was a genteel affair, as you would ordinarily expect of an evening of violin, two viols and harpsichord. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z Inserting himself into the narrative, Mr. Alagbé remarked that when he once looked up Sankara’s name in France’s famous Larousse dictionary there was no entry for him. A Comic Book Artist Who Makes the Invisible Visible 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The selfie, recently added to the dictionary, is a photo taken by oneself, often with a mobile phone/camera. Kim Kardashian to publish a book of selfies with Rizzoli 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z A former chief editor of the dictionary, Simpson reflects on nearly four decades as a gatekeeper of the English language. Paperback Row 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Ask any person who knows the urban dictionary, it means 'friend' … I have been using these words since I started in comedy and guess what, people? Les Dawson set for a posthumous return, and an abundance of outrage 2013-02-27T11:44:08Z Other dictionary companies have gone with more conventional choices. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z But it's still his picture in the dictionary next to "inventor." TV Picks: Ricky Jay, Tom Edison, 'Justified,' 'Masterchef Junior' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The dictionary defines that word as a “small, simple building used especially for storage.” The Art Museum in Steve Tisch’s Backyard 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Did you just throw darts at a dictionary to form sentences? Review: Look what we made Taylor Swift do 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Similarly impressive, in a quieter way, is the story he tells of the imprisoned Malcolm X who, wanting to improve his vocabulary, copied out by hand an entire dictionary. ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Sure, it’s gimmicky: a novel told in the form of a dictionary. Newly Released Books 2011-02-16T22:45:21Z She opens the novel by announcing, “While in prison, I received a dictionary.” Review | ‘The Sentence’ is among Louise Erdrich’s most magical novels 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Once in France, he learned the language, he recalled, by obsessively studying a dictionary of synonyms. The Week in Arts: Sleater-Kinney, Paul Taylor and ‘Synonyms’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The latter, incidentally, is among new words just added to the official Scrabble dictionary. Tile Me More! 6 Scrabble Tips From Top Players 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z To me, a proper dictionary is a book of spells. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Watching him eat with his hands, Mary Cassatt remarked on his “total disregard for the dictionary of manners,” while admiring a deep level of courtesy in him. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z After widespread criticism for his comments, he later suggested that people needed to check the dictionary definition of immigrant. Late-night hosts on Trump's healthcare plan: 'We're all going to die' 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The big dictionaries of later years, such as Johnson's and Webster's, did their best to standardise spelling, but with only limited success. David Crystal: the story of English spelling 2012-08-23T13:00:01Z Mr. Colbert had just had a lively interview with the comedian Jerrod Carmichael, in which they both agreed that the word “paranoid” should be removed from the dictionary. Stephen Colbert Isn’t Sure Whether to Trust the C.I.A. 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Alongside this is a mystical strain that seems peculiarly English, seeking to "describe / the mastery of flowers / grazing the earth // like translations done / without dictionaries". Unsent: New and Selected Poems 1980-2012 by Penelope Shuttle - review 2012-12-28T22:55:07Z But the removal of a few words from a dictionary isn’t a sign of anything more than the removal of a few words from a dictionary, and the evolution of culture, like it or not. Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops "Acorn" for "Broadband" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Biles, thrilled, told reporters, “I haven’t found the word for this yet. I need a dictionary.” Simone Biles, champion Olympic gymnast, will publish a memoir 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z On the last day Shields saw Vonnegut, the novelist instructed his biographer to look up Kurt Vonnegut in the dictionary. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z But the dictionary’s comments are often grammatically, not politically, motivated. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Fired by his fascination with the language and a much-abused dictionary, he undertook a guidebook for outlanders to Loch Earn and what he called “your Lordship’s delicious estate.” An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z One dictionary from 1859 defines it as "To talk in a silly manner, talk nonsense." Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z They are adored by all, including young hunks on speeding mo-peds who force them to page through the only book that matters: an English-Italian dictionary. ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’ Review: Cinema Pinot Grigio 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z But I spotted a worn-out copy of a Chinese-Italian dictionary on the counter. The Beauty of Frugal Rome: Some of the Best Things are Free 2012-09-28T19:09:16Z I encourage pupils to use dictionaries and thesauruses so pupils compile their own word banks. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z With its capstone entry of “zydeco,” the dictionary includes nearly 60,000 terms, many of them reflecting the country’s rural and agricultural past. Dictionary of American Regional English Reaches Last Volume 2012-02-25T00:18:42Z "The last thing I did that night was to look up the word 'estimable' in my red Webster's dictionary," said Gates, director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z But – in an attempt to make the creation of dictionaries more "democratic" – the editors at Collins have decided to open up their word selection process. War of wordcraft: invitation to write dictionary puts language nerds on alert 2012-07-18T11:08:04Z Once it was a very old Kikongo-English dictionary I found in the University of Arizona library’s special collections. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z According to the dictionary, doughnuts and churros are similar, nearly indistinguishable. Did McDonald's Columbus the churro for their Donut Sticks? 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Even the Oxford dictionary defines an old wife's fable, story or tale as "a foolish story, such as is told by garrulous old women". Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Ben Stiller stars in an adaptation of the classic James Thurber story James Thurber’s 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was so evocative that its title character became a dictionary entry. Today’s Movie Trailer: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2013-07-30T19:03:53Z Including more nature words in the dictionary might mask that problem but won’t solve it. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The author is known only as “B. E. Gent.,” with the “Gent.” standing for “gentleman” — ironic considering how ungentlemanly his dictionary was. ArtsBeat: The Dulpickles and Nigmenogs of 1699 2011-04-01T18:30:00Z Over the years, he edited a spate of dictionaries for various publishers; for a decade and half, until his retirement in the mid-1990s, he was the executive editor of the dictionary division of Random House. Sol Steinmetz, an Expert on Language, Dies at 80 2010-10-25T03:48:00Z What we’re going to realize more and more, as we work with the dictionary on the computer, is that we’re not really looking at individual words. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z That seemed so artfully vague to me, so uncharacteristically casual for a dictionary. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The footage, which showed Pataxó people speaking their ancient language in a trance, was later passed to local university researchers who are at work on expanding a dictionary, Borges said. Space Pagans and Smartphone Witches: Where Tech Meets Mysticism 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z She tells me that none of her projects is a manifesto, or a dictionary definition of what it means to be a man or a woman. Me and my vulva: 100 women reveal all 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z “Through the dictionary, we see proof that words matter, whether we are discussing national politics or personal identity.” 'They' declared 2019 'word of the year' by Merriam-Webster 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The dictionary definition says radical means “advocating extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs.” Perspective | We must stop calling Trump’s enablers ‘conservative.’ They are the radical right. 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z There are many types of cinematic cockney – they're not merely one-dimensional east Londoners, born with rhyming dictionaries stored away in their loaves of bread. Clip joint: cockneys 2013-06-26T10:50:38Z If a dictionary editor says this to journalists and scholars, they will believe him. Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words, book claims 2012-11-26T20:17:22Z “It’s the rudest word in my dictionary, ‘retire,’” she said. Judi Dench Now Unable To Read Scripts as Eyesight Fails 2014-02-24T13:32:37Z To learn English, he copied a dictionary word for word onto cigarette papers. Film reopens old, long-buried wounds in Indonesia 2013-02-27T05:35:36Z Current presenter Nick Hewer, maths whizz Rachel Riley and the dictionary corner's Susie Dent will be presented with the award. Countdown gets Guinness World Record 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The Oxford Junior Dictionary has a job to do: It needs to help young children look up words they encounter and, by doing so, learn to use a dictionary. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Thinking he might write, he packed a typewriter, paper, pencils, notebooks, dictionaries and a compact encyclopedia, noting, “I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.” John Steinbeck’s classic travelogue showcases man’s best road trip buddy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z “The bottom line of the African American people, when you read this dictionary,” Gates said, “is that you’ll say these are people who love language.” Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In the standard dictionary, “it used to be entered only as ‘OK’ or ‘okay,’” Ms. Brewster said, noting that the capitalization of “OK” prevented it from being used as a Scrabble word in the past. You Can Play ‘Sheeple’ in Scrabble Now. Over 300 Other New Words, Too. 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z A small dictionary contains all the words you need to know, and a really big one seems to contain all the words in existence. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But for all the admirable rigor of the O.E.D., nowadays the dictionary is probably more revered than used. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z Her ambition is to be an etymologist and a consultant for putting words into dictionaries. Child Genius; Agnetha: Abba and After – TV review 2013-06-12T06:00:04Z KABUL, Afghanistan — Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet 2013-02-07T17:30:11Z In general, there aren’t too many places outside of a dictionary or chemistry lab where one would likely see the prefix being used, but cisgender is seeing an uptick in use. This Is What 'Cisgender' Means 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It's simply that the further back in film history one goes, the more limiting – if not outright redundant – the dictionary definition turns out to be. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z In this week’s Book Review, I consider the most recent — and most ambitious — effort to compile a dictionary of English-language slang. ArtsBeat: The Dulpickles and Nigmenogs of 1699 2011-04-01T18:30:00Z Doctor Who has become the most popular non-soap drama on British TV, and words like Dalek are now in the dictionary. Doctor Cool 2010-04-01T22:26:00Z And if we keep returning to the dictionary for new words to replace them, will there eventually be any left? How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z “Al Jolson is back on the home grounds,” wrote John Anderson of the New York Journal-American, “in celebration whereof I toss my own critical headgear over the moon and over the dictionary.” Hollywood Star Gives Broadway a Much-Needed Boost. Sound Familiar? 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Merriam-Webster announced on Monday it had added more than 300 words to the latest edition of its official Scrabble dictionary. You Can Play ‘Sheeple’ in Scrabble Now. Over 300 Other New Words, Too. 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z This prompts a question: If the dictionary merely describes what exists, then why not include every word? O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z Morse did acknowledge: "It's harder for some paper dictionaries to stay in business in the era of online dictionaries." F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary 2012-08-13T21:03:11Z Now: Going online to find out what “dictionary” means. Style Invitational Week 1262: Clue us in 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The dictionary lists its first known usage as 1946, though it appeared in The New York Times as early as 1923. A Short History of ‘Simp’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In 1981, when my first slang dictionary was commissioned, I saw that not only did this subject interest me but that there was also a gap in the market. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z It contains literary, commercial, educational and political records going back 150 years, street directories, dictionaries, encylopaedias, and volumes concerning the history of science and engineering. Manchester City Library book pulping: text of letter of protest 2012-06-22T15:44:53Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Dec. 14: our contest for short poems featuring this year’s new dictionary words. Style Invitational Week 1414: Divining comedy — the year in preview 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Its mandate now is to safeguard the language and update a major dictionary first published in 1694, culling anachronistic words and introducing new ones, and to advise on usage. Dany Laferrière, a Guardian of French, Joins the Académie Française 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The battle was drawn in 1828 and lasted for decades, as a succession of dictionaries by Webster and Worcester fought it out in the marketplace. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The more florid variations have their moment and disappear into the dictionaries. Tickle gizzard and the pleasure pivot: A history of sex slang and the coolest ancient dirty words 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z If there was a macrobiotic dictionary and you looked up “yin,” you’d see a picture of my face. “I tell myself I will quit bingeing when I get diabetes”: Tales of a sugar addict 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Sept. 17: our contest for poems featuring new words added to the dictionary. Style Invitational Week 1297: A different type o’ headline contest 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Another of the unique Nigerian references now in the dictionary is “okada”, which stems from the massive traffic jams for which megacity Lagos is internationally notorious. Nigeria and the Oxford English Dictionary 'rub minds' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Appearing on the Collins words of the year list is no guarantee of insertion in the next dictionary. "Gangnam Style" in line for UK dictionary inclusion 2012-12-20T14:00:49Z What good do feminist dictionaries and campaigns do? ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z In fact, it seemed the guy was having his resignation accepted before anyone could even open a dictionary. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Mattresses were no thicker than a puffer jacket and the pillows were shaped like loaves of sandwich bread, but firmer than a dictionary. Exploring ‘The Land of Morning Calm’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “Right now there are a lot of questions about what is true. We want clear statements about what things are, and dictionaries provide that.” Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Unlike traditional pubs, the green-wallpapered bar, with its many dictionaries and Scrabble boards, stays open until 2:30 a.m. on the weekends, so the literary arguments can continue deep into the night. Overnighter: Norwich, England ? a Getaway for Book Lovers 2011-01-21T19:55:00Z The dictionary's example quotes, like "my girl," uses the word from a man's perspective, almost as if the word exists for the sake of others to classify women. From "Barbie Girl" to Girl Dinner and beyond: What's behind our obsession with the girl-ish label 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z This would mean combining major existing dictionaries and adding specialized lexicons, as well as words from global English dialects and new online vocabulary, too. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z First as a treasure: A dictionary becomes more beloved as it ages. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z "We were looking for words that told the story of the year," said Ian Brookes, the dictionary's consultant editor. "Gangnam Style" in line for UK dictionary inclusion 2012-12-20T14:00:49Z She grew up with an interest in western art, and recalls poring over tiny reproductions of old masters printed at the back of her Larousse dictionary. Mona Hatoum and the 6ft cheese-grater 2010-12-12T21:46:00Z Mr. Sheidlower, the lexicographer, said: “In times of stress, people will go to things that will provide answers. The Bible, the dictionary or alcohol.” Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z A project of Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press, the dictionary will not just collect spellings and definitions. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z “Not to remove them from the dictionary, but remove them from under ‘woman’,” she says. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z I keep this old dictionary for two reasons. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z On the radio: I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. NW by Zadie Smith – extract 2012-08-17T21:55:12Z I assiduously collected trolls, doll's house furniture and tiny books such as Langenscheidt dictionaries – little things that I would arrange into tableaux. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z A great dictionary might even be passed on through several generations. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The first American dictionary – "A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language" – was published in 1806 by Noah Webster, according to the Merriam-Webster website. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z The plan of attack involves platform shoes and “jeggings”: the fashion dictionary term for jeans that look like leggings. | 'Plain Jane': Louise Roe Gives an Ugly Duckling New Feathers on CW 2010-07-27T21:03:00Z A devoted hypochondriac, my mother liked to get creative with her illnesses, consulting the dictionary like she was blindly pointing to a spot on a spinning globe. “I blamed Adam Sandler for ruining my life” 2014-03-21T17:08:00Z These texts reside next to the most important book of all, a dictionary. Books to Inspire Hunger and Thirst 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The exhibit, on view through Nov. 11, includes Colbert book drafts, sketches by illustrator Paul Hildebrand, two Bud Light Lime bottles, a crumpled paper bag, a turkey sandwich receipt and a rhyming dictionary. Philly library features Colbert with Joyce, Sendak 2012-07-31T09:16:04Z One of Sanchez’s favorite possessions is a 19th-century Spanish dictionary that she uses to search for words people may have forgotten. How Her Ancestors Reignited Her Return to Theater 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z I’ve put off summarizing the plot of “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” — the title comes from a dictionary’s definition of life — because it’s grim labor to do so. Books of The Times: ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra 2013-05-07T20:50:26Z Most of his installations include a dictionary—for a bad speller, a tool of Enlightenment and a symbol of personal evolution. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z That may be an inversion of the old dictionary, the graduation present—but discovery, in whatever format, is after all what dictionaries are for. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “In this age of fast communication, and technological and scientific advances, we continuously encounter new ways of describing the world around us — and the dictionary is a record of these changes,” he said. In this dumpster-fire of a year, Merriam-Webster has embiggened its dictionary 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The dictionary project was now judged subversive, and many of those who worked on it were arrested and shot. Stalinist Crimes in Ukraine That Resonate Today 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In Part 2, Jude features a "short dictionary of anecdotes, signs, and wonders," that define various power dynamics, from colonialism, to censorship, and persecution. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Once, these meanings were available in online versions of traditional dictionaries, and in increasingly rare print volumes. Reading in an Emergency 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr. LaChiusa’s new songs come from his musical “Marlene Dietrich’s ABC,” that star’s personal dictionary of observations from the early 1960s, inspired by letters of the alphabet. Music Review: Audra McDonald at Lincoln Center 2013-05-10T21:59:41Z The Oxford dictionary defines news as, “newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events.” In times of crisis, "Fox & Friends" turns to unimpeachable pancakes 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z "Black and white, they should be taken out of the dictionary, in regards to people," he says. Congo Natty and the jungle revolution 2013-07-04T16:00:01Z “We were concerned about the very widespread, damaging belief that traditional dictionaries are the primary records of language use,” she says. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Executives nervous at giving creative freedom to such a firecracker talent can reflect on Self's undoubted Reithian credentials: what other contemporary writer can be relied upon to send readers reaching for their dictionaries? Will Self in talks to become Radio 4 writer-in-residence 2013-01-18T17:02:38Z Growing up in an immigrant, Spanish-speaking household, we didn’t have much literature on our bookshelves: We had books on Mexican history, the Holy Bible and an English dictionary. Enrique Garcia Naranjo, on the importance of being Mexcellent 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The paint buckets, left on the floor, are covered with dictionary definitions of each country and their state flags. Special Report: Contemporary Art: An Art Exhibition in Need of a Map 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z A comprehensive guide to the etymology of Scandinavian names, plus a dictionary of names from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland, plus handy chapters on Scandinavian immigration patterns in the U.S., Local books: slugs, snails and Scandinavian names 2010-12-06T20:49:00Z After he was diagnosed with a learning disability, she bought a dictionary and encouraged him to learn new words and to rap—which he did, composing his own songs at age eight or nine. “Caught,” Reviewed: A Podcast That Captures the Voices of Incarcerated Kids 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Later, the teacher gave him a copy of Webster’s dictionary, to which he still routinely refers. ‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z He was later an editor at Clarence L. Barnhart, a dictionary publisher, before joining Random House. Sol Steinmetz, an Expert on Language, Dies at 80 2010-10-25T03:48:00Z In 1857, the Oxford English Dictionary was just a sparkle in the eyes of some English gents who thought the current dictionaries weren’t up to snuff. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z For the ones the editors invented from scratch, they consulted dictionaries of languages like German, French or Polish to see what these made of contemporary English terms. How Do You Say ‘Email’ in Yiddish? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z “People were clearly encountering this new use and turning to the dictionary for clarity and for usage guidance.” 'They' declared 2019 'word of the year' by Merriam-Webster 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Fumbling through my Hausa dictionary I explained that my husband had white hairs in his beard. Why We Travel: Readers Share Their Stories 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z She struggles not to lose hope and keeps up her concentration by learning to weave, giving French lessons, reading her Bible and dictionary, and exercising. Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The newest tenant, Amelia Lynd, an intellectual, elderly British woman, befriends Chino — giving him lessons in literature, grammar, philosophy and history, sharing her passion for dictionaries and making him word-hungry. Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z “There is an ocean of words to study from for the bee. There are different languages, roots and tons of stuff in the Merriam-Webster dictionary,” Ananya said. Spelling whiz shares her tips to beating the competition: Steady discipline, not a blitzkrieg 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Many readers just wrote dictionary definitions in the margin, or "v good", or they simply underlined words. It's my habit to share relics 2011-03-22T19:30:00Z Judging from the dictionary, a nerd is something you emphatically don't want to be. When the alpha nerds kicked ass 2010-12-16T22:01:00Z This week’s contest focuses on Time Traveler, a fascinating new online feature from Merriam-Webster, the dictionary folks. Style Invitational: Poems of the year(s)—‘time-travel’ with Merriam-Webster 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z "Exploring Time Traveler is surprising and enlightening, with many words first recorded much earlier or later than one might expect," the dictionary publisher said in a news release. Did you know 'apology' and 'civil war' were coined the same year? Thank Merriam-Webster's new Time Traveler feature 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Dictionary.com, which claims to be "the world's leading and most definitive online dictionary," licenses some of its definitions from print volumes such as American Heritage and Random House. New entries added to Dictionary.com: 'dox,' 'gender-fluid,' 'lifehack' 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Macquarie Dictionary, an Australian English dictionary, had also chosen “cancel culture” for its Word of the Year after holding a vote for the public. 'Existential,' 'Climate Emergency' chosen as Words of the Year 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Dictionary.com added hundreds of new words to the online reference on Tuesday, in a way that shows how dictionaries are operating in the digital age. Dictionary.com Adds 'Woke,' 'Pokemon' and 'Butthurt' 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z In other words, you know your dictionary content has been stolen if it includes a word that exists only in your dictionary. 7 fake words that actually ended up in the dictionary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Words submitted for inclusion in the online dictionary will be reviewed by the Collins dictionary editors, who monitor frequency of use, number of sources and staying power, in sources including papers, social media and radio. War of wordcraft: invitation to write dictionary puts language nerds on alert 2012-07-18T11:08:04Z At an impasse, we do the only thing we ever learned to do in that godforsaken school: look up the definition of “bullying” in the dictionary. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Here’s the dictionary definition of white supremacy: the belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them. Perspective | Tucker Carlson’s claim that white supremacy is a hoax is easy to prove wrong. Just watch his show. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Other dictionary companies in the word of the year game focused on the pandemic and its fallout for their picks. Dictionary.com anoints allyship word of the year for 2021 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Cowardly, avaricious, annoying, territorial, deceitful, opportunistic: There aren’t enough shady adjectives in the dictionary to describe the narrator of Andrew Lipstein’s “Last Resort.” In ‘Last Resort,’ a Writer Turns a Friend’s Story Into a Smash Success 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Years ago I tried randomly pointing twice into a dictionary. Are there any great band names left? 2011-04-04T22:13:00Z “There’s also a sense that we’re increasingly divided, and the dictionary’s role is to help people communicate with each other.” Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z On the Merriam-Webster dictionary site, the fourth definition of “woman” is a servant and the fifth is a wife or mistress. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z “If you sat down and read the dictionary, you’d get a history of the African American people from A to Z.” Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Young Shawn felt gravity working on him, “like a planet pulled into orbit by a star”: he went home that night and started writing his own rhymes in a notebook and studying the dictionary. Books of The Times: The Street Poet Jay-Z Shows His Softer Side, in a Memoir 2010-11-22T18:28:00Z Taking a break from Emi and her plight, Jude compiles a “short dictionary of anecdotes, signs and wonders.” ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Over the next two decades, they essentially Worcesterized the dictionary that bore Webster’s name. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Now, a new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with the English language. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Merl Reagle, a playfully irreverent crossword puzzle constructor whose clues set off spirited cerebrations from his fans rather than frustrated surrenders to dictionary arcana, died on Saturday in Tampa, Fla. He was 65. Merl Reagle, Whose Crossword Puzzles Delighted Clued-In Solvers, Dies at 65 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z "He's in a class by himself and his command of the dictionary is unbelievable. We're all kind of looking up at this guy in awe." Scrabble champion to be crowned in Buffalo after five days of wordplay 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z This dictionary will offer many insights, Gates said, but one overarching lesson jumps out. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Ortiz: I remember looking through the dictionary and just going letter by letter trying anything. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Aliens, Romance and the Vicious Brothers 2014-04-25T17:00:57Z "However, the dictionary definition of behaviour is: 'a stereotyped motor response to a physiological stimulus.'" Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig – review 2013-01-25T10:00:01Z Before the museum smartly de-emphasized artifacts in favor of inspiration, I even pushed for a shelf of great writers’ dictionaries. Where do art and the humanities belong? David Kipen on the new American Writers Museum 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z This is certainly more secure than using pets' names, sports teams or any word from the dictionary. How do I swap Apple for Android? Your tech questions answered 2012-12-16T00:05:35Z Had he picked words at random from a dictionary and challenged himself to work them into his story? Motherlode Blog: How 'Shrek' Persuaded Me to Let the Words Fly 2012-09-24T20:16:51Z Those who long for a conservative dictionary should seek one, but this is not the only way of doing things. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z I could write some definitions for the slang dictionary now. Director Sean Baker learned a lot of new slang while filming ‘Tangerine’ 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z In all, the company picks about 100 additions for the 114-year-old dictionary's annual update, gathering evidence of usage over several years in everything from media to the labels of beer bottles and frozen food. F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary 2012-08-13T21:03:11Z I said to him, look, you know, you've done the most incredible job at sending in Australian words to the dictionary. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z But the new dictionaries will be on sale this week, with updated apps available later this month. Now You Can Use The Word 'Selfie' in Scrabble 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z I listened to the show, using my dictionary to look up the hard words. Grappling With the Language of Love 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But some dictionary companies are embracing the personality-driven culture of the digital age to make lexicography more accessible and perhaps drive advertising revenue through clicks. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z “You wouldn’t normally think of a dictionary as a way of telling the story of the evolution of the African American people, but it is,” Gates said. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The word is among more than 300 in the dictionary’s editors latest batch, and they say that the timing is a coincidence. The Surprising History Behind the Word 'Pokémon' 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Most dictionaries feature usage guides and and tips, though, like grammarians, not all agree. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z A quick flip through the pages might set off alarm bells for those fearful of italics, bold type, capital letters, dictionary definitions and chunky quotations. Margo Jefferson’s New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z In the end, I made a pocket dictionary of the creative curse words that pepper her vocabulary. Seduced, Then Scorned, by My Work Wife 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The important thing about her is that she gives an unrivalled coverage of the dictionaries in the field of slang from the very first in 1531 through to the most recent. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z “The potential of an online dictionary has to go beyond that of even the greatest print lexicons,” says the 68-year-old dictionary maker, who has been studying, collecting and defining slang for decades. Green's, the Biggest Slang Dictionary Ever, Just Went Online 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The dictionary can be sort of wielded as a weapon, like: Well, is that how it's spelled in the dictionary? Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Etymological dictionaries date the term 'cold turkey' back to the 1920s, when it referred to the withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting heroin rather than drugs in general. Lady Gaga says went "cold turkey" to break marijuana habit 2013-11-08T15:38:25Z “We are not the dictionary of New England English,” he said. Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But most of these words do not appear in dictionaries. Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends 2010-12-16T19:00:29Z Details were announced today of the library's new exhibition devoted to the English language, exploring its 1,500-year history from Anglo-Saxon runes and early dictionaries to not dropping your Hs and rap. 'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century 2010-08-18T18:31:00Z Many of the researchers at the dictionary say they don’t expect to live to see it finished. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting) 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z We were trying to open up the dictionary. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z The most colorful words are nearly always missing from the dictionary, as Sutter, the young protagonist of this rambunctious play, discovers early on. 'Bootycandy' adorns itself with flamboyance, ribaldry, hilarity and unsettling poignancy 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The dictionary entry read: “to burn or char the surface of.” Motherlode: Life Before and After a Child's Diagnosis 2011-08-01T16:55:46Z Her and her colleagues’ intention was to challenge the traditional dictionaries’ content and authority. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Somebody with a penchant for innovation, and yet also devotion to writing a dictionary, in some ways sounds like a contradiction. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Language does not pop up all shiny and new each time a lexicographer signs a contract to write a dictionary. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z It certainly has the most pages devoted to it in the slang dictionaries. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z She bought a ring light for Zooms, balancing her laptop on two dictionaries. Helen Mirren finds bright side during the pandemic 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Definitions can almost never cover the full complexity of a word, even in huge dictionaries. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In the middle of the 19th century, three men came up with the idea of creating a dictionary of every word in the English language. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, Ms. Brewster said, it took an average of 35 years for a word, once coined, to qualify for entry in the Merriam Webster dictionary. ‘Jeuje,’ ‘Zhoosh,’ ‘Zhuzh’: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Ogilvie shared stories of her stint as chief editor of Oxford Dictionaries, where she had access to the archives that showed the very start of how the dictionary was conceived. Why Jamaica Kincaid loves the OED 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The word makes Collins' top 12 list, but its inclusion in the online dictionary is under review, as editors study evidence of its continuing use. Gangnam style and Romneyshambles among Collins dictionary's words of 2012 2012-12-21T12:02:00Z In four of the pictures, Tracy’s image is partially hidden by arrangements of found snapshots, clippings from dictionaries, and nostalgic objects—an empty ring box, perfume bottles, women’s nylons in a jumble of hues. An Artist’s Meditation on Color Reveals a Secret History of Film 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z One man carried an Alice Munro novel, another a well-worn dictionary. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Whatever authority a dictionary definition might have, Segel proved women have the power to change it. Meet the woman who changed the dictionary definition of ‘femininity’ 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z There's something about the dictionary format that lends itself to satire eminently well. The indefinable charm of satirical dictionaries 2011-03-01T12:07:50Z Perhaps tastes have changed since those dictionary entries were written. Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Erin McKean, who left traditional lexicography to found an online dictionary, Wordnik, explained why she chose a format that could allow virtually limitless entries: “I don’t want to be a traffic cop!” Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Not even the dictionary knows what he means. My not-so-maternal instinct: I refuse to lie to my kids 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z According to the Merriam-Webster website, different dictionaries have various criteria for adding words. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z The result is the lightning-fast decoding of letter and word sounds but also the retrieval of word meanings from a potentially vast mental dictionary. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z I just have to say for the record I think there should be a picture of Kevin Hart in the dictionary next to the word "movie star." "Red Notice" star Chris Diamantopoulos swears he wasn't trying to break up Jim and Pam 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Everyone swears like a foul-mouthed trooper stubbing his toe on a slang dictionary. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Spartacus: Blood And Sand 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z “If it’s a teaching moment, and you don’t have a dictionary or reference book handy, then, yes, it’s O.K. to Google at dinner.” This Life: Should You Google at Dinner? 2010-12-10T18:01:00Z Use a thesaurus and dictionary to find word alternatives. Take the time to write a love letter 2011-01-31T16:50:04Z Giovanardi started looking into it more deeply, using the default dictionaries on different search engines. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Or: "The first time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything." Comedy gold: A Steven Wright Special 2013-03-14T15:49:19Z This is now the dictionary I will use as my only authority on language. Gene Weingarten: The latest weapon in his war on ‘terror’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z OXFORD, England — To compile a dictionary of nearly every word in the English language was an endeavor typical of Victorian times, complete with white-bearded gentlemen, utter confidence and an endearingly plodding pace. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z From next year, Macmillan Education's range of monolingual dictionaries for English learners will no longer appear as physical books, and will only be available online. Macmillan Dictionary to go digital after publisher announces final print editions 2012-11-07T09:04:36Z In 1982 a new boss shocked the then-editor with a plan to computerise the dictionary’s ways: both the lexicographic work itself, with digital research files, and its outcome, an OED on compact disc. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z A tweet posted to the dictionary’s feed linking to this definition quickly racked up several hundred retweets. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Laymon describes how his grandmother, born poor and black in Jim Crow Mississippi, was “better than anyone I’d ever known at bending, breaking and building words that weren’t in the dictionary.” In ‘Heavy,’ Kiese Laymon Recalls the Weight of Where He’s Been 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Another entry in our dictionary, a labour of learning forever regenerating, like laundry; a conversation-stopper, and starter, not because I’m foreign but because we’re old. I fell for a Frenchman, but didn’t speak the language | Lauren Collins 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Hawg is the character who is great at the dictionary game. “A lifetime of fighting fires, drinking beer and eating red meat”: The author of “Wildfire” on what it takes for a woman to make it on a hotshot crew 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Yes, she’s a serial college dropout and a judge’s daughter with an encyclopedic knowledge of every arcane subject and a Merriam-Webster dictionary nestled amid the underwear in her red plaid valise. When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s not all whimsy, and a philosophy of language weaves through the dictionary. Review | Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Working with language experts and other tribal members, Baird developed a dictionary of Wampanoag and a grammar guide based on historical documents and personal diaries written in Wampanoag. Native American tribe that shared first Thanksgiving meal trying to revive its language 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z That’s why the word “consensual” is the most important one in any lover’s dictionary. My girlfriend wants me to spank her. Should I feel guilty? 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z “Infer” is not given as a synonym for “imply,” as modern dictionaries do. Gene Weingarten: The latest weapon in his war on ‘terror’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet the process of evaluating evidence and writing definitions in a clear and unbiased manner remains the objective, said Katherine Connor Martin, head of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z According to Merriam-Webster, it’s silly to rely on any single dictionary to contain every word in the English language, even though dictionaries "tend to be rather large books." National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z The simplicity of the language touched me, for it was the language of those who didn't reach for a dictionary but expressed their true, crude, raw and intense feelings, whether they praised, elegised or defamed. Retelling One Thousand and One Nights 2011-08-12T21:55:19Z When Gonzalo looks up the definition of padrastro in the dictionary it reads: “Obstacle, impediment or inconvenience that hinders or does damage to a thing.” ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z And its name, though trademarked, is now even listed in the dictionary, jello, a gelatin dessert. Gelatin Breaks Out of Its Mold 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z In the car, he kept an English-Arabic dictionary, a thesaurus, a few reference books, some American fiction, and a favorite edition of the work of Kahlil Gibran. No Longer Driving a Cab, a Syrian Writer in America Focusses on His Fiction 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The Second, which had come out in 1934, had been as much guide as dictionary. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But one night Ms. Boo tripped over an unabridged dictionary in her own apartment, puncturing a lung and breaking three ribs, and decided home wasn’t much safer. Katherine Boo on Her Book ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-02-08T21:30:53Z On a long, rough wood table, there was a collection of antique medicine bottles and ceramic vessels, the unabridged Random House dictionary and a 1950s-era Olympia typewriter — not a decorative object. K.D. Lang Doesn’t Have to Indulge Your Constant Cravings 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “It’s not spellers against spellers. It’s spellers against the dictionary,” Ashrita Gandhari, a current finalist, said about the sense of camaraderie and companionship among the contestants. How Indian Americans Came to Love the Spelling Bee 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Evenings are spent flipping through dictionaries and arguing about, for example, whether “brim” is a better word than “flank” and “how to offend — in German and English.” Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z He eventually became fluent in the language and customs of the Yuat, and he produced the only known dictionary of their language. Oh brothers, where art thou? A thriving oasis in Australia’s outback 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It reads like a little dictionary, with my little mantras. Barry Manilow’s Bubble and a House of Whimsy 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z It is a beautiful and funny book which culminates in what was to be Bouvard and Pecuchet's final salvo against the ignorance of general understanding the in the still remarkably salient 'dictionary of perceived ideas'. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z It's an incredibly impractical item to own, the whole 20-volume set, but I can't bear to part with it, even though dictionaries have largely gone digital now. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Ask the knowledgeable and gregarious docents to show you the Brito, a magnificent dictionary of theological words that was handwritten by scribes in the 1300s. 36 Hours in the Cotswolds 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z And when you think about dictionaries, even in the 20th century, dictionaries have always been right at the frontier of technology and innovation. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z You can also celebrate by reading these interesting facts about the dictionary. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z And they wanted to showcase a canon of movement on screen, “like a dictionary of dance,” Mr. Durou said. Round-the-Clock Giddiness in a 24-Hour Music Video 2013-12-25T23:06:53Z An English dictionary and thesaurus, as well as a topical blog, are provided by Macmillan Dictionary online, along with the crowdsourced "open dictionary". Macmillan Dictionary to go digital after publisher announces final print editions 2012-11-07T09:04:36Z Still, when my kids came home from school in the evenings we would always have the dictionaries out while I was cooking; I would be giving them spelling tests and word tests. Doreen Lawrence: 'I could have shut myself away, but that is not me' 2013-04-20T22:26:39Z Anyone who baulked at recent anomalies in The Hour, when modern idioms slipped into the 50s drama, will once again be reaching for their etymological dictionaries. Chickens: What The Inbetweeners did next 2011-08-29T21:00:00Z The word, meaning scrap or bit, was to be listed in the dictionary as a purely New England piece of vocabulary traceable to 1860. Dictionary of American Regional English Reaches Last Volume 2012-02-25T00:18:42Z "I used to read the dictionary for fun," the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright explained in a recent interview. Capturing how Aretha Franklin could "alchemize her pain into sonic gold" 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z And so dictionaries and lexicographers led the way in the early days of computer science and humanities computing. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z This is the first time I’ve consulted the dictionary since I stopped working with Mozart. Roddy Doyle Scored 8 Out of 10 on a Quiz About Roddy Doyle 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Litvak points out how a glance at the dictionary is all it takes to recall that “sophistication” in fact means “perversion”. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z A dictionary from my father, inscribed, “To my favorite wordsmith.” Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The word has been in use for so long in so many shifting contexts that your dictionary is useless here even as a spelling guide. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z Ms. Barrymore brought rosé and talked about the dictionary and her divorce. Review: ‘Chelsea’ on Netflix Seems Just Like the Talk Shows It Says It Isn’t 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I was especially fascinated by the latter’s ape-to-English dictionary at the end of the novel. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z He published the book The Meaning of Liff with his friend Douglas Adams 30 years ago, a spoof dictionary in which place names were given new meanings. John Lloyd makes Edinburgh debut 2013-07-26T07:03:01Z The submissions were myriad, including fan art of Hillary Clinton, prose, poetry and, finally, a screenshot of a definition of how “femininity” is used in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Meet the woman who changed the dictionary definition of ‘femininity’ 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Stanley begins by offering a definition of propaganda that extends beyond dictionary descriptions of biased or misleading information used to promote a particular political cause or point of view. ‘How Propaganda Works’ Is a Timely Reminder for a Post-Truth Age 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Recently you talked on David Letterman about how the dictionary definition of “feminist” is someone who believes in the social, economic and political equality of the genders — which is an idea most people agree with. Aziz Ansari on His New Book and How Texting Is Ruining Our Relationships 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z And that’s exactly what Titus would do: he’d think the only thing you need to write a song is a rhyming dictionary. 'Kimmy Schmidt' composer Jeff Richmond on the show's viral-friendly songs 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z First, using a pronouncing dictionary created at Carnegie Mellon, he built a program to count syllables and recognize meter. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z I had always enjoyed looking at slang dictionaries and books that had slang in them. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z I bought poetry pamphlets and leather-backed French encyclopaedias published by Larousse; cartoon books and Victorian keepsakes; out-of-date dictionaries and bound copies of magazines from the Cornhill to the Strand. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z It's the simplest of things to input a rhyming dictionary. Translating poetry might be beyond Google ? but we'll have fun watching it try 2010-10-24T21:00:00Z On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert gleefully held up a stack of paper bound with metal fasteners that rivaled the thickness of a dictionary. ‘That’s not how an innocent person reacts’: Late-night hosts rip Trump, Barr over Mueller report 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The dictionary game is something that guys on my crew played all the time. “A lifetime of fighting fires, drinking beer and eating red meat”: The author of “Wildfire” on what it takes for a woman to make it on a hotshot crew 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Deleting words from the dictionary is considered verboten. Sarah Ogilvie on Deletions From the Oxford English Dictionary 2012-11-28T23:40:36Z The volume is considered the first English dictionary in the modern sense – an alphabetical wordlist with definitions – and it predates Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary by 150 years. 'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century 2010-08-18T18:31:00Z Bits of my life — a Spanish dictionary, my cat’s empty carrier — were strewn across the embankment. Modern Love: Ready to Take a Faithful Leap 2011-07-14T20:19:03Z Week 1344 was our 16th annual Limerixicon, in which we help out OEDILF.com — a project to create a whole dictionary in limerick form — by seeking limericks featuring a word from one sliver of the dictionary. Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In Week 1296 we listed some of the terms that were just added to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary and asked the Loser Community to write short poems featuring them. Style Invitational Week 1300: Botch office sensations 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night: Our contest for poems based on new dictionary words. Style Invitational Week 1351: What concept will you be for Halloween? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Collins dictionary editors will monitor frequency of use, number of sources and staying power when assessing words. War of wordcraft: invitation to write dictionary puts language nerds on alert 2012-07-18T11:08:04Z I’d used my Spanish-English dictionary to talk to a man about how my sisters had been hit by a car, just like he had. You can have a church or be a free woman – but having both is a struggle 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The dictionary also reported that searches for the word “fact” spiked after Ms. Conway’s comments, and then, as an apparent reminder, tweeted the dictionary’s definition. George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Here is longer sampling of the Springfield, Mass.-based dictionary’s new additions: Merriam-Webster Adds 'FOMO,' 'Mx.' and 2,000 Other Words 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z You don’t need a chemistry degree to add a few key words to your green-cleaning dictionary. How to find ‘green’ cleaning products that get the job done 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Yet women have long been involved in creating dictionaries, she says. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Gretel, who works as a lexicographer updating dictionary entries, is haunted by the way her mother abandoned her when she was a teenager. Her Mother Disappeared 16 Years Ago. In This Novel, the Hunt Continues. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The sixth edition of the dictionary, published in 1976, included the phrase "switched on." New words to live by 2011-09-06T15:45:04Z And make no mistake about it, the Washington football team is a dictionary defined racial slur. “Keep the heat on Adam Silver!”: Author Dave Zirin sounds off on Sterling, LeBron and Muhammad Ali 2014-05-09T13:24:00Z In that sense he was the first to bring the dictionary into the 21st century. Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words, book claims 2012-11-26T20:17:22Z “To me, a proper dictionary is a book of spells,” says the novelist, whose most recent book is “Frankissstein.” Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The decision to impose a page-count on a dictionary is in fact a painful one. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Literary texts accounted for most quotations in the early days of the dictionary. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z For the count in his comprehensive biographical dictionary, which is in progress, he said, “I’m projecting 1,005 when all is said and done.” A Scrimshaw Collector’s Treasured Carvings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And there was a big court case going on at the time, where a slang lexicographer, Stephen Farmer, was being sued for putting in the c-word and the f-word in his dictionary. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Over time, though, almost all traditional dictionaries have been purchased by Synchronic, pushing people to the company’s own Word Exchange, a dictionary app that requires payment for each definition accessed. Reading in an Emergency 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The vote, held this year during the group’s annual meeting in Portland, Ore., is said to be the oldest continuous such effort, and the only one unaffiliated with a dictionary publisher or other commercial enterprise. Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z I wonder what that strong tendency towards innovation that you discovered in your research says about how we think about the role of a dictionary culturally. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z When people ask what got me started on my path to writing dictionaries, it’s easy to credit an early love of reading. Lost, and Found, in Translation: 3 Picture Books About Language Turn Anglocentric Tropes on Their Head 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Click here to discover the remaining 677 entries that now call the dictionary home. Chef's kiss: Merriam-Webster adds new words describing food and how it is made to the dictionary 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The coverage has sent Americans scurrying to the dictionary and news organizations carefully considering terminology. Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z It's got the English dictionary entry to prove it. 'Twerking' bounces into Oxford dictionary 2013-08-28T06:03:56Z The database – which dictionary compilers refer to as a "corpus" – reveals the influence of popular children's literature. BlackBerry cupcakes and Googling: new study of UK children's language 2012-05-28T16:25:20Z Then add a foreign language, unfamiliar streets and a noncentral hotel, where the only place a concierge can be found is in the French dictionary a backpacker left behind. Frugal Traveler: When You've Got Those First-24-Hour Blues 2011-08-02T19:26:56Z But "Yb" will send the average viewer to the dictionary: It's the symbol for the chemical element ytterbium. 'Perspectives' at Foster/White looks at our world through photographers' lenses 2010-09-16T04:01:00Z Mrs. Davis often told how she quickly agreed to provide one, then raced home to look up denouement in the dictionary. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, mystery writer, dies at 98 Some of the terms are not found in standard dictionaries. Noted: Facebook Customizes Gender With 50 Different Choices 2014-04-04T22:40:18Z Trump is making a deal with Merriam-Webster to rewrite the dictionary. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Spot the fake news headline 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z A dictionary is really a database; it has fields for headword, pronunciation, etymology, definition, and in the case of historical dictionaries like the OED, citations of past usages. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z She wrote sitting in bed with "a bottle of sherry, a dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, yellow pads, an ashtray, and a Bible," as interviewer George Plimpton once reminded her. Maya Angelou, a daughter of the South, a voice for us all 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z He was better educated, so she bought herself a dictionary. Family life: Happiness is a hammock, Long Ago and Far Away and Yorkshire pudding 2013-06-22T06:30:12Z And even now, dictionaries are being used as the data — the data from dictionaries are powering the back end of the internet. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Do you think these abbreviations and symbols deserve a place in the dictionary and are there any other words you would like to see included? OMG! Textspeak gets into dictionary 2011-03-25T14:51:29Z The dictionary also illustrates the complicated interplay between imaginative literature and the real world. Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The words I google often come up with answers from Urban dictionary, which I've come to trust. Language Rules for the Digital Age 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z According to the dictionary website, National Dictionary Day "celebrates language, emphasizes the importance of learning and encourages readers to use the dictionary to improve vocabulary." National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Malcolm recalled how Louise Little kept a dictionary on the kitchen table alongside daily newspaper clippings that she made her children study, correcting misinformation given them by their white teachers. Three Women Who Helped Their Sons Become Civil Rights Icons 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z When the dictionary admits the ignorant pronunciation of “flaccid” without a hard “C,” she writes that “mass cluelessness has prevailed.” The Long Hot Summer of Grammar 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “My idea about dictionaries is that, in a way, their time has come,” he said. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z This is a great book and very exciting, but it is a bit hard to understand, as lots of sailing terms are used, so you'd better have a dictionary near. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome - review 2012-06-15T11:00:00Z While other dictionary companies choose words of the year by committee, Merriam-Webster bases its selection on lookup data, paying close attention to spikes and, more recently, year-over-year increases in searches after weeding out evergreens. Merriam-Webster chooses vaccine as the 2021 word of the year 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z A large volume of roughly 1,000 pages and measuring 12 inches by 8 inches, it’s called a quadruple dictionary because the definitions include derivations and synonyms in French, Latin and Greek. ‘Shakespeare’s Beehive’ review: Are these notes and scribbles the Bard’s? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z After making some reasonable guesses about Shakespeare’s early years in London, they argue that young Will somehow acquired this dictionary and began to study its thousand pages, quill pen in hand. ‘Shakespeare’s Beehive’ review: Are these notes and scribbles the Bard’s? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Her assertions are particularly notable because Dr. Burchfield, the editor of a four-volume supplement of the dictionary completed in 1986, had cultivated the reputation as someone who was far more inclusive than his predecessors. Sarah Ogilvie on Deletions From the Oxford English Dictionary 2012-11-28T23:40:36Z If you look up the word “establishment” in the dictionary at the Library of Congress today, you’ll find Bob’s picture there. The most serious crime in Washington, D.C. 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z "In an effort to get an unromantic, unbiased definition of the word, Italian dictionaries of all sizes were consulted," wrote Nan Ickeringill in 1964. Lemony, buttery shrimp for when you're short on time 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z But though Dr. Burchfield’s reputation absorbed the brunt of the early criticism, many are now rallying to his defense, including representatives of the OED, as the dictionary is known, and even Dr. Ogilvie. Sarah Ogilvie on Deletions From the Oxford English Dictionary 2012-11-28T23:40:36Z The dictionary reminds us the Muses were sister-goddesses who inspired learning and the arts. Anna Karina, Catherine Deneuve: movies malign women by calling them muses 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z At the back of each book, a rebus dictionary offers a translation for each emoji and its meaning. See how 'A Christmas Carol' and other classics are being translated into emoji 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Your wife says she respects you but I think she needs a dictionary. My wife wants me to have an affair with her best friend. What shall I do? | Annalisa Barbieri 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z A secretary brings in a dictionary and Cristi reads and discusses the definitions of "conscience", "morality", "law", "state" and "police", which inevitably ends up in victory for the senior, more powerful, seemingly more logical man. Police, Adjective 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z For the first time, two dictionary companies on Monday — Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com — declared the same word as their tops: pandemic. Dictionary companies choose same word of the year: pandemic 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z And hats off to the online Macmillan dictionary for suggesting: “Qualities that are considered to be typical of women, for example, the quality of being gentle and delicate.” Meet the woman who changed the dictionary definition of ‘femininity’ 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z In fact, it was only with the arrival of cinema vérité in the 1960s that the documentary and the dictionary begins to dovetail. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z Also, however noble the intention, it’s naïve to assume that if a word is removed from any dictionary, it’s going to disappear from the language and conversation. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Even as it is, it’s hard to fault the parents of children from schools like Public School 87, who raised $1.57 million for computers, science kits, desk chairs and dictionaries. Motherlode Blog: Amid Million Dollar PTAs, a School Fights to Keep Its Library 2012-06-04T14:36:45Z Me: Okay, without referring to your dictionary, please tell me how you personally, Michael Agnes, professional lexicographer, pronounce the word W-H-A-T. Perspective | How do you pronounce the word ‘what’? 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z She poses odd queries: “Exactly how many dictionary covers could one make by peeling a single cow?” In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z President Trump suggested that he invented the word "fake," or the term “fake news” in an interview on Saturday, prompting a weekend correction from dictionary Merriam-Webster. Trump's claim to have come up with the term 'fake news' is fake news, Merriam-Webster dictionary says 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Urban dictionary entries can be the stuff of urban myth, but now a health expert has weighed in. One reason women should think twice about smoking weed before sex 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z According to the dictionary, some dictionaries leave out words that are out of date or irrelevant to most people. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z From the beginning the dictionary was the product of cutting-edge lexicographical science and on-the-ground research of unprecedented scope. Dictionary of American Regional English Reaches Last Volume 2012-02-25T00:18:42Z M.D: I’m OK at Scrabble, but not like the people who study the dictionary. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z The related word Grexit — a potential Greek exit from the E.U.’s single currency — is also a new addition to the dictionary. YouTuber and Brexit Enter the Oxford Dictionary 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z In the 1930s, Mr. Schneid completed a dictionary of 20th-century Jewish artists, but it was never published; the Nazis destroyed his printing plates. A ‘Moral Imperative’ to Recover a Lost Art Legacy 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z In his famous dictionary Samuel Johnson notoriously, and gloriously, defined the word “network” as “any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.” ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The language and the world change; the dictionary reflects those changes. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Before that, the game's rules called for any desk dictionary to be consulted. Scrabble dictionary adds 'OK,' 'ew' to official play along with hundreds of other new words 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Maya used to read the dictionary with her beloved grandfather, something we're reminded of when she drops words such as "lapidary" and "telluric". Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende – review 2013-05-30T07:01:01Z The Collins dictionary defines gaslighting as an “attempt to manipulate a person by continually presenting them with false information until they doubt their sanity”. Twenty-three women accuse Harvey Weinstein of ‘trying to gaslight society’ 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z "I'm a little bit relieved and nervous about da coming back into the dictionary," he said. 15 fascinating facts about Scrabble 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z In a prologue, Jonathan Waldman reveals that his father wrote a dictionary of robotics and that he had a youthful passion for the subject. A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z They weren’t – the most derogatory synonym for “man” given by dictionaries she found were “bozo” and “geezer”. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z But then, the words that you can find in a dictionary aren't the ones that get people to sing along. On this Earth Wind and Fire Day, remember "September" as a beautiful case of accidental magic 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z I do not think that a dictionary definition of “spirit” will resolve that question. We Asked 7 Lawyers to Untangle the Broadway Fight Over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z It contained a copy of the 1870 U.S. census, a Bible, a dictionary, the complete works of William Shakespeare, a guide to Egypt, and a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence. 11 time capsules waiting to be opened 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z It was very awkward to have to look each up in a dictionary. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Nearly half of the county’s population was already Latino, but it was a time, almost two decades before Latinx entered the dictionary, when the city was weirdly un-self-aware about it. The Nightlife Outlaws of East Los Angeles 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z It is considered appropriate language by online dictionaries, writing style guidelines and the news media. College students are increasingly identifying beyond "she" and "he" 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z And so that was how the dictionary was going to be different. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The dictionary, he said, lacks resources to transform itself this way. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z How is the OED different from other dictionaries and why is it important? An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z “I don’t think you’ll find it in most dictionaries. It was coined to define the last of a kind.” Katherine Applegate finds a new voice for endangered animals 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z When young, Jeff would challenge himself to define a word, chasing it down through the dictionary: Fishwife to shrew to shrewmouse to insectivorous to vorous. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z When you work for the dictionary, people mind their grammatical p's and q's around you out of fear. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z He tells her that he looked entitled up in the dictionary and he is not entitled. The Bachelorette Recap: Go and Cry For Jo Jo, Argentina 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Sales of print dictionaries remain brisk and are a profit center for some publishers. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The slightly less common hate-watch, defined as watching something “for the sake of the enjoyment one derives from mocking or criticizing it” joined the dictionary as well. Oxford Dictionary Recognizes: YOLO, Amazeballs and Hot Mess 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Over the years, the Americas have contributed increasing numbers of words to the language and, as a result, the Royal Academy's dictionary. The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Solnit’s 2008 essay “Men Explain Things to Me” helped give birth to the term, which has been canonized by the Oxford online dictionary, been translated into multiple languages and inspired countless memes. Perspective | Rebecca Solnit on mansplaining and her new book, ‘The Mother of All Questions’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z One guy I fought fire with just had an amazing vocabulary, so the rest of us would throw out words for him from the dictionary to see if he could define them. “A lifetime of fighting fires, drinking beer and eating red meat”: The author of “Wildfire” on what it takes for a woman to make it on a hotshot crew 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z I am also looking forward to dipping into Oliver Hilmes's new German biography, with the help of my German dictionary. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z If you looked in the dictionary for the word "tomato," these would appear in an accompanying photograph as the platonic ideal. What using up my end-of-summer-tomatoes taught me about cooking 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z “A lot of the words in the book are not in the regular Brazilian Portuguese dictionaries,” Dodson noted. New Translations Explore Brazil’s ‘Endless and Unfinished’ Character 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z They accidentally discover a 200-year-old dictionary that lands them, as the book jacket denotes, “in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the best-kept secret of the U.S. presidency.” Television Review: Searching for Clues in History?s Nooks 2010-12-01T22:28:00Z Merriam-Webster is here for you — those are all among new words it just added to the dictionary. Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Photograph: /AP Although he achieved considerable wealth and fame and a secure place in dictionaries of quotations, Gore Vidal failed in the two major ambitions of his life. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z The dictionary defines “breakthrough” as a “sudden advance,” but the Associated Press’ Breakthrough Entertainers of the Year spent lots of time preparing for their star-making moments. The AP names its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z But the largest dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, is always adding new words. Language evolves, and that’s okay (O.K.?) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z For her part Ms. Huxtable said The Times made a “brave gamble” in the “belief that the quality of the built world mattered, at a time when environment was still only a dictionary word.” Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic, Dies at 91 2013-01-08T00:34:22Z Look up “effortless” in an online dictionary, and you just might see the clip here of them recording “On the Sunny Side of the Street.” ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'Tony Bennett: Duets II' 2012-01-27T21:05:23Z Schiller wrote his “Ode to Joy” inspired by the American Revolution, and Kahane added that there is “no dictionary anyplace where the word ‘all’ means some.” Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z They are unabashedly loose, stupid, clumsy, gross — by one dictionary definition. Review: UMO Ensemble's buffoonery shines in 'El Dorado' 2010-08-20T21:44:00Z These are, according to various traditional dictionaries, synonyms for “woman”, which came as a bit of a shock to Maria Beatrice Giovanardi as she typed the word into a search engine one night in January. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Hathwar said, “I think we both know that the competition was against the dictionary, not against each other.” Watching the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Accompanied by definitions from Phillips's alternative dictionary, Clark's installations are spread throughout this mysterious, gloomy pile with its lights dimmed to preserve the thousands of strange artefacts and precious curios it houses. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z Learn the alphabet the macabre way with this 26-chapter horror-shorts anthology: a dictionary of blood, gore and fear with enough highlights to justify the exercise. This week's new films 2013-04-27T05:00:15Z Starting off with a definition might be considered trite, but sometimes the dictionary must be called upon. Miley Cyrus is MTV’s ‘Best Artist of 2013’ — But What Does That Mean? 2013-12-10T20:33:10Z Then again in Week 749, but just for the first third of the dictionary, and in Week 925, for the second third. Style Invitational: A remeaning task — redefine a word 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The two-letter words added were gi, po, te, and da, which is actually making a comeback — it was in the first edition of the Scrabble dictionary, but Chew had it removed for the second edition. 15 fascinating facts about Scrabble 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z I read Dr. Johnson’s dictionary, too, as “research,” which for me is usually another way of saying joyous, guilt-free procrastination. Cathleen Schine Writes Fiction. But She Prefers Not to Read It at Work. 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Or the police captain played by Ivanov in Police, Adjective, who turns to the dictionary for the definition of his profession to solve a crisis of conscience. Sing like a canary! The whistling consultant who taught Romanian noir gangsters a tune 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z A monster, according to its dictionary definition, is “one who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character.” Review: ‘Medieval Monsters’? Those Beasts Are Not Extinct 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z There is a large dictionary stand with an unabridged dictionary. By the Book : John Irving: By the Book 2012-06-07T15:45:22Z "Democracy sausage" will be added to the next edition of Australia's national dictionary, which was last published in August and contains 16,000 uniquely Aussie words, Robinson said. 'Democracy sausage' wins Australia's word of the year 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Both the senator’s and Ms. Reinstein’s efforts languished, but Mr. Sokolowski said the resulting national media coverage helped put the word on a trajectory to eventually join the dictionary. Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z I think that it's got a dual identity, because I think that users of dictionaries still want an authoritative, rigorous source. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z So it’s certainly correct to call Mr. Scarlett’s work “Acherontic,” a word whose dictionary meanings include “infernal, gloomy, waiting to cross Acheron, moribund.” Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z Actually, there's an informal "battle of the word of the year" going on between various dictionary outlets. 'Culture' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2014 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster described the interview as “fraught with epistemological tension.” George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The idea was born when Oxford asked Gates to join forces to better represent African American English in its existing dictionaries. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Among the check cashing locations, pawn shops and bodegas that lined the commercial thoroughfare when she was growing up, she said, were street vendors selling an assortment of books — from urban fiction to dictionaries. Coming Soon to the Bronx, a Long Overdue Book Festival 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z This morning, she has been reading the dictionary. Sharon Olds: Confessions of a divorce 2013-01-26T07:29:01Z Another dictionary, Merriam-Webster, also selected pandemic as its word of the year earlier Monday. Dictionary.com picks ‘pandemic’ as its 2020 word of the year 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z And that's why I wanted to shine a light on these people and give them credit, finally, because I think without them, the dictionary wouldn't exist. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z It’s wise and funny and thrilling and immaculately acted and awesome in both the slang and dictionary sense. Pain Threshold: Game of Thrones, Hannibal and the “Not for Me” Moment 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z On its back cover is a deep dent from when I tried to use the dictionary to pound down a door hinge. Review | What’s a dictionary’s job? To tell us how to use words or to show us how we’re using them? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z These are solid, perennial reasons to look up “culture” in the dictionary. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Like every group of additions to the dictionary, the entries reflect what English speakers are interested in right now, what they’re talking about, who they are. This Gender-Neutral Word Could Replace 'Mr.' and 'Ms.' 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z He started selling chewing gum when he was about 7 years old and soon expanded his trade to maps and dictionaries. Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet 2013-02-07T17:30:11Z In some small ways the regional dictionary itself — which will be released in a digital edition in 2013 — may be helping to blur the very distinctions it celebrates. Dictionary of American Regional English Reaches Last Volume 2012-02-25T00:18:42Z I didn’t notice when legions of nonsense constructs marched through the portcullis of my psyche and overran my internal dictionary. How I Became Addicted to Online Word Games 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The script reveals a fascination with the Oxford dictionary definition of the word "escritoire", as you might expect from two ambitious autodidacts. Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z The place filled with cowboy hats and books — “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a Georgia O’Keeffe biography, a dictionary, “The Western Buckle: History, Art, Culture, Function,” Michael Ondaatje’s “Divisadero.” Ian Tyson, Revered Canadian Folk Singer, Dies at 89 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z "If you're a 'music' fan, look it up in the dictionary. Then 'literature.' Then compare and contrast," Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh said in a Twitter outburst. Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z At one point, struggling for a phrase, she says she has lost her "inner dictionary"; at another, more surprisingly, that she "really shouldn't talk about politics, because I don't have the right words". Laura Wade: return of the thugs 2012-05-16T17:30:01Z This strikes me as almost a dictionary definition of an entrepreneur. A life in books: Tim Waterstone 2010-09-08T07:00:00Z As Mr. Holmstrom wrote, "Once we looked up the words in the dictionary, we knew we were on to something." On the Runway Blog: Not Quite Headed for the Coffee Table 2012-12-07T22:32:11Z The dictionary details the Latin language used in Britain between 540 AD and the year 1600, drawing its contents from the Domesday Book, the Magna Carta and thousands of other documents. Medieval Latin dictionary completed 2013-12-09T14:21:26Z Now, this week, M-W has announced additions to its Scrabble dictionary — including the strategically important ew, OK and zen — 50 of which we list below. Style Invitational Week 1299: OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z He created the book by arranging small pieces of torn black paper into figures that were then glued onto pages from a French dictionary. Cy Twombly Works Donated to Tate Modern 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z They were thumbing through online dictionaries, looking for a definition of “impugn.” Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z I remember her wearing a dull blue, loose-fitting outfit and scarf and sitting by her living-room coal fire, reading; her dictionary, atlas and radio close at hand. Family life: My religious grandfather, the Beatles and Gran's Hungarian pancakes 2013-07-06T06:30:10Z Collins is currently considering submissions from the public of words they would like to see included for the online version of the dictionary. War of wordcraft: invitation to write dictionary puts language nerds on alert 2012-07-18T11:08:04Z I didn’t have any water pitchers lying around, and I practiced with the medical dictionary my mother kept next to her bedside. “I blamed Adam Sandler for ruining my life” 2014-03-21T17:08:00Z It also would be enshrined in those warehouses of learning, the Enlightenment dictionary and encyclopedia. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z I remember having to look the word up in the dictionary at about 14, while reading the “racy” novel "Candy." From mowing the grass to cutting the flesh 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z They called their project Boffo, after flipping through the dictionary and finding that the word was commonly used during the Great Depression to mean success. Up Close: Faris Al-Shathir Matches Designers With Architects 2012-01-11T17:46:41Z The Springfield, Massachusetts-based dictionary company sought counsel from the North American Scrabble Players Association when updating the book, Sokolowski said, "to make sure that they agree these words are desirable." Scrabble dictionary adds 'OK,' 'ew' to official play along with hundreds of other new words 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Similarly, many entries are extended with pictures or even videos, a perfectly obvious notion for any online project, but one that is still unusual for scholarly and even for standard dictionaries. A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The newest words have only been added to the online dictionary, not the Oxford English Dictionary — the web edition’s more academic, reputable counterpart. ICYMI: Oxford Dictionaries adds “mansplain” and “douchebaggery” 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The dictionary will contain words and phrases that are were originally, predominantly or exclusively used by African Americans, said Danica Salazar, the executive editor for World Englishes for Oxford Languages. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z He bought his first dictionary at the prison commissary and began etching words into his memory by copying them down and reading them aloud. The Encyclopedia Reader 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z A fifth-grader at the 98 percentile will spend more than an hour a day and input almost 4.4 million words that reinforce the mental dictionary. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z And the dictionary loved the musician who died on Sunday, too. David Bowie Is All Over the Oxford Dictionary 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The book, published last week by Pantheon, mixes memoiristic meditations on the lexicographic life along with a detailed description of the brain-twisting work of writing dictionaries. A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Week 1448 was our 18th annual Limerixicon, in which we provide some material for OEDILF.com, the slowly forming dictionary in which the entry for each word is one or more limericks. Style Invitational Week 1452: As the word turns 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z I use the dictionary of American Regional English. Q&A: Author Ivan Doig on 'The Bartender's Tale' and a writer's life 2012-09-17T22:36:12Z For all the ways to define comfort food, the dictionary definition is the one I’d push back on. These Gingery Soba Noodles May Just Defy Definition 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The new M-W.com listings for Week 1296: Click on each for the full dictionary listing, or visit this week’s Style Conversational column at wapo.st/conv1296 for a list of short definitions. Style Invitational Week 1296: A, we’re adorbs — a poetry contest 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z I only wish someone had reassured me that if, horror of horrors, a dictionary went to press with a mistake in it, no one would die. Gap-year travel won't broaden the mind ? it just turns the young into fantasists 2011-01-09T00:05:35Z Another large set work on revising the 20 volumes of the text of the existing dictionary. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z “We need the dictionary more than ever now that we have information flying at us from all directions,” he said. Swole, buzzy, among new words in Merriam-Webster dictionary 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z One dictionary defines epistemology as “The theory of knowledge, especially its methods, validity and scope.” Gene Weingarten: Admit it. You don’t know what ‘epistemological’ means either. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z With the help of my pocket Farsi dictionary, I managed to ask, “is this your house?” Safety or politeness? That time I let myself be taken captive — because I didn’t want to be rude 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z “We watch to see, is this word’s use growing or is it falling? If the word is growing — even incrementally, even slowly, like fluffernutter — then it belongs in the dictionary.” Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z There are so many different shapes, ranging from long, thin strands to tube-shaped pasta, that the category really needs its own dictionary. An A-to-Z guide to every single type of pasta 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z English teachers, dictionary publishers and that uptight guy two cubicles over who always complains about the microwave being dirty, they will all tell you that you can't. Why we need to invent new words 2013-03-11T08:29:01Z Nora, a bookish girl from a damaged family, is the kind of teen who's thrilled when she receives a Latin dictionary for her birthday. CJ Daugherty's top 10 secret society books 2013-01-10T14:58:14Z He outlined the historical debate on whether dictionaries should be “prescriptive,” i.e. dictating the way things ought to be, or “descriptive,” i.e. merely documenting the way things are. Perspective | A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z By now, terrorist and terrorism no longer meant what the dictionaries and experts said. I used to laugh off Donald Trump: As a Muslim, a U.S. citizen and a veteran, I’m not laughing anymore 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In NW‘s opening chapter, Leah latches onto a phrase she hears on the radio: “I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.” Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z Blount had published Florio's translation of Montaigne, as well as his dictionaries. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z The Massachusett language, for example, is well documented with dictionaries and Bible translations. Indian Tribes Go in Search of Their Lost Languages 2010-04-05T22:06:00Z Differences in language evolve from separation, said Sonja Lanehart, a professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and a member of the dictionary advisory board. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z A good dictionary is the classic school-leaving gift from ambitious parents to their children. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The side-by-side interest among political candidates and around kitchen tables prompted the dictionary folk to settle on two words of the year rather than one for the first time since the accolade began in 2003. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z If dictionaries are a form of information technology, the building is in some ways a catalog of obsolescence. A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Entries in the dictionary range from pithy definitions to mini essays on modern life’s anxieties. Review | Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z There’s no dictionary that you could look at. ‘Vida’: Tanya Saracho on Colorism and the ‘Authenticity Police’ 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Over 535 new words and meanings were added to the tome's digital dictionary on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Merriam-Webster told Fox News. Merriam-Webster adds new coronavirus-related words, updates definitions amid pandemic 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But maybe the most reassuring thing about a dictionary is its finite nature. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.” Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Worcester died the following year, and his dictionaries faded away. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z This dictionary definition of “lie” still keeps some media organizations from applying it to Trump. FactCheck.org, the nonprofit fact-checking organization, hasn’t used the term in the past 10 years, according to Director Eugene Kiely. Lies? The news media is starting to describe Trump’s ‘falsehoods’ that way. 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The dictionary defines 'democracy sausage' as "a barbecued sausage served on a slice of bread, bought at a polling booth sausage sizzle on election day". 'Democracy sausage' wins Australia's word of the year 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z During meetings, a few people read dictionary definitions of the word “raider.” Anatomy of a Mascot 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z What is it like to see a word you invented get into the dictionary? From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z It’s a celebration of the people who compile dictionaries, even if they’re driven out of their minds in the process. In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Aside from “ok,” the word “zen” was one of the most significant changes to the dictionary this year, Mr. Chew said, adding that he received more complaints about its exclusion than any other word. You Can Play ‘Sheeple’ in Scrabble Now. Over 300 Other New Words, Too. 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z And I think by that he meant all words must enter the dictionary, but also all people must be part of this creation process. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Historical dictionaries aim to show not just what words mean, but who has used them, in what contexts, and how those meanings have evolved. Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Don’t pay it; use this online dictionary for any fields you don’t understand. Frugal Traveler: In Brazil, Baby Steps (Literally) Toward a Small-Town Carnival 2012-02-28T21:43:42Z “Can we get it in the dictionary, can we get it super-official?” she said. Charlize Theron’s Sick Work Ethic 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Dear RiRi, let me see how many words we can pile on this excuse for a career without wanting to puke up a dictionary. Rob Delaney's new releases review 2013-04-22T05:00:00Z As Ogilvie explained, volunteer readers were asked to go through their reading libraries and mail in slips of paper with English words they had selected to be included in the dictionary. Why Jamaica Kincaid loves the OED 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “Change in etiquette usually comes slowly, just as changes come slowly in the dictionary,” Amy Vanderbilt wrote in her book on manners, published more than half a century ago. How to act in public spaces in a digital age 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z All dictionary definitions of “exotic” have two strands: “from a distant place,” and “striking and attractive because unfamiliar.” Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Our heroine and part-time narrator, Anana Johnston, is a twenty-seven-year-old woman who works at the last dictionary in America not owned by Synchronic. Reading in an Emergency 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Milkshake Duck, the dictionary’s blog post said, was “very much in the infancy of its extended use, but we will be tracking it with interest to see if it takes flight or not.” How a Joke Becomes a Meme: The Birth of ‘Milkshake Duck’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Some of the research associated with making a dictionary involves figuring out where and when a word originated. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The publishing house this week released a sample of the new words, which add 30 pages to the dictionary last updated 10 years ago. New Scrabble dictionary picks up the language of the millennials 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “You know, Samuel Johnson was a reference book editor. He defined a lexicographer, a compiler of dictionaries, as a harmless drudge.” Frederick G. Ruffner Jr., titan of reference books, dies at 88 Helping to make sense of a president’s message connects to the very purpose of a dictionary, she added. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z It is so pathetically wrong, in fact, that the dictionary suggests it might be used humorously, to illustrate illiteracy. Gene Weingarten: The latest weapon in his war on ‘terror’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z It is also where Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States, was founded and still operates. Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Already, the Royal Academy's dictionary contains the popular Mexican slang "güey," which literally means ox, but generally means "fool" — depending on context and intonation. The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The dictionary also includes regionalisms from around the country. A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Last week, Merriam-Webster added more than a thousand words to the dictionary. How to dump someone on Valentine's Day – or any day – without being a jerk 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Transplanted to London, the Chinese-born narrator struggles with the city’s transport system, tries to find “Brexit” in her dictionary and wonders if London Wall is anything like the Great Wall of China. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Firstly, the language used is simple and secondly, knowing the story helps you to guess the meaning of new words and avoid using a dictionary. The Secret to Quickly Learning a Foreign Language as an Adult 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Dreams Are Lost in the Melting Pot It’s no wonder that the words Islamic and fundamentalism are often so tightly coupled in American minds: even our dictionaries bind them together. Movie Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist,’ Directed by Mira Nair 2013-04-25T23:17:37Z “His mind,” the father says memorably of Jonah, “is like a dictionary with the pages glued together.” In ‘Shtum,’ parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The phrase will be added to the online dictionary in its next update. Gangnam style and Romneyshambles among Collins dictionary's words of 2012 2012-12-21T12:02:00Z “When you look up ‘talent agent’ in the dictionary,” Ms. Buchwald said, “there is a guy in a shiny suit, hanging up the phone” and being a jerk. Howard Stern’s Superagent Is Getting With the Program 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The actress called retirement "the rudest word in my dictionary" Dame Judi defies failing eyesight 2014-02-24T09:32:26Z With little in the way of flowery prose or colorful exposition, much of the Baedeker reads more like a dictionary than a Lonely Planet guide. Footsteps: The Highlands by Rail, With 1910 Baedeker in Hand 2010-05-07T16:41:00Z So out to the center of the reference room we went, where a humongous dictionary lay on a tall pedestal. Letters to the Editor 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z |
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