@dcjohnson someone really needs to speak to the #OxfordDictionary and tell them their #definition of "free speech" is inaccurate.

@ThorsdaysChild I hope #Nopefully will become an entry in #MerriamWebster and #OxfordDictionary within a few years.

I built a quick lookup dictionary launcher plugin for Pop!_OS. It uses the Pop launcher and GoldenDict so you can open the launcher and type "define ___" and get the definition in 3+ dictionaries at once.
https://github.com/canadaduane/pop-dictionary

#linux #popOS #english #thesaurus #OxfordDictionary #AmericanHeritage

“New words catch on when they capture our imagination, or fill a hole with a word for a concept we need to express,” Katherine Connor Martin, product director at Oxford Languages, said in a telephone interview. @nytimes | The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode https://nyti.ms/3VSLBpU
#words #goblinmode #wordoftheyear #LanguageIsFun #oxforddictionary #2022

“New words catch on when they capture our imagination, or fill a hole with a word for a concept we need to express,” Katherine Connor Martin, product director at Oxford Languages, said in a telephone interview. @nytimes | The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode https://nyti.ms/3VSLBpU
#words #goblinmode #wordoftheyear #LanguageIsFun #oxforddictionary #2022

I see there is a vote for the #OxfordDictionary word of the year, and "Bread Spreader" wasn't nominated.

I'm stunned. Truly STUNNED.

@vipergeek @vipergeek I am deeply saddened by the #nytimes’s misuse of the very precise measurement of “decimated.” If the technical teams were merely #decimated, it would be quite tragic but #Twitter would be fine…

…and I’m being told now that #language has moved on and decimated now means “destroyed a whole lot of” and the literal definition, “killed one in ten of” is relegated to a #historical definition…

…this update just in: there is a disagreement between #merriamwebsterdictionary and #oxforddictionary over which is the primary definition.

Curse this backwater wolfling tongue we call #English.