Pink News: ‘Polysexual’ and ‘autosexual’ among 566 new words added to Dictionary.com https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/07/polysexual-autosexual-dictionary-com-revision-pronouns/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #dictionary.com #definition #dictionary #Identity #online #Books #News #Fun #fun

Gizmodo: Dictionary.com Adds AI-Related Words That 'Marked a Tipping Point for Mainstream Awareness' https://gizmodo.com/dictionary-com-adds-ai-related-words-to-the-lexicon-1850808989?utm_source=regular #promptengineering #dictionarycom #humaninterest #dictionary #iac

Make Use Of: 7 Ways to Check Dictionary Definitions on Your Mac https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-check-dictionary-definitions-on-mac/ #Tech #MakeUseOf #TechNews #IT via @morganeogerbc #LanguageLearning #Dictionary #MacTips #macOS #Mac

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary

https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary

Fascinating read. Also led me to do a quick search and find that Webster’s 1913 edition is available online:

https://www.websters1913.com

(Anyone know who made/maintains this?)

Another interesting dictionary to check out, from the other side of the pond, is The Chambers Dictionary.

#dictionary #websters1913 #chambers

Noah Webster’s1828 #Dictionary – Definition of #Virus: VI'RUS, noun [Latin See Virulent.] Foul or contagious matter of an ulcer, postule, etc.; poison.

VIR'ULENT, adjective [Latin virulentus, from virus, #poison, that is, strength, from the same root as vir, vireo. See Venom.]

1. Extremely active in doing injury; very poisonous or venomous. No poison is more virulent than that of some species of serpents.

2. Very bitter in enmity; malignant; as a virulent invective.

https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/virus

Conversational German (Longplay) for the ZX81

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Sd0PI4UBk&ab_channel=Highretrogamelord

#ConversationalGerman #ZX81 #Education #Educational #Edutainment #Program #Utility #Dictionary #Longplay #Timex

Content (kən-ˈtent)

When the wise people told us to "be content"

They meant to strive for ​contentment

(kən-ˈtent-mənt)

They didn't mean for us to become

con·​tent (ˈkän-ˌtent)

for others

to sell and consume

Source of pronunciations: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/content

#poetry #dictionary #wordplay

Gullible is the only word in the dictionary without a definition.

#words #dictionary #gullible #QI #notQI

I wrote this open source command line dictionary. Completely offline and lightning fast. Written in rust with a sqlite back-end. The linguistic data is open source and based on wiktionary.

https://github.com/Lodobo/rdict

#cli #english #dictionary #foss #rust

Inapposite is not a word I'll likely remember past today.

It means:

out of place; inappropriate; not pertinent; unsuitable.

#words #dictionary

Word of the Day: LESTOBIOSIS - covertly stealing food. (Not to be confused with LESTABIOSIS - secretly living in Leicester.)

#WordOfTheDay #words #dictionary #covert #secret #theft #stealing #Leicester #QI #notQI

Now I will have to call it #Mirmingham forever:
"Mirmingham (category Welsh nasal-mutation forms)
Mirmingham (nonstandard) Nasal mutation of Birmingham. In the standard language, non-Welsh place names like #Birmingham do not undergo mutation...."
I really don't understand #Welsh mutation and I'm trying to figure it out properly. Once I do, I'll know when to say Birmingham with a b. I know there really is no such thing as Mirmingham but I am a rebel, Dottie.

~~
#cymraeg #gymraeg

Search results for "Welsh #mutation" - #Wiktionary, the free #dictionary
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?go=Look+up&ns0=1&search=Welsh+mutation

Launch: The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
6 Sep, University of Edinburgh – free

After many years in the making, Pauline Cairns Speitel’s The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary will be going live, free & online

#Scottish #Scots #language #Travellers #Roma #Romani #Dictionary
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-the-language-of-the-scottish-traveller-a-dictionary-tickets-695404402287

Look what my other half spotted at a used bookstore and brought me! A lovely 1930s hardback edition of Harkavy's English-Yiddish / Yiddish-English dictionary. And the edges of the pages are dyed red on the Yiddish-English side, so you can tell at a glance where one half starts and the other ends.

Yiddish is not one of my regular working languages yet, but I'm sure I'll make good use of this. 😍 #translation #language #dictionary

Help revise The F-Word: @jessesheidlower is looking for suggestions, quotations, antedatings, and anecdotes for the fourth edition of his dictionary of "fuck"

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/03/22/help-revise-the-f-word/

#fuck #dictionary #lexicography

The Merriam-Webster word of the days is “Perquisite” which refers to something extra that someone receives in addition to regular pay for doing a job. Perks, as in “job perks” is short for perquisite.

I find it amazing that in my 69 years of life, I’ve never (knowingly) heard of that word. Especially since “perks” is so common.

Supposedly the word has been around since the 15th century.

#dictionary

Found Dad's first English & Chinese dictionary.
Gifted to him by one of our war refugees sponsors.

#AsianMastodon #Chinese #English #dictionary

#Hacker #Dictionary

http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/index.html

Fresh Sheet: New Arrivals #RareBooks | mark funke bookseller

https://funkebooks.com/fresh/

some fine items from Renaissance to recent times (most C17-18). Part of the new #dictionary catalogue (reference works on words and terms, broadly construed)

Apparently, Merriam-Webster's #Dictionary hyphenates the word mm-hmm "used to indicate agreement, satisfaction, or encouragement to continue speaking." I'm wondering how folks at the Chicago Manual of Style and Associated Press feel about that. I'm also curious if or when mm-hmm will go the way of "email" and other previously hyphenated primary spellings.

#Language #EnglishIsHard #EnglishIsWeird

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mm-hmm