stancarey, to languagelearning

Virginia Woolf: Lexicographer – a paper exploring her association with dictionaries
https://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fowler2002.pdf

#VirginiaWoolf #dictionary #OED #lexicography #language #literature

The Maknuune Lexicon (Palestinian Arabic dialect) (sites.google.com)

"The Maknuune Lexicon" is a Palestinian Arabic lexicon which is updated regularly and available to download as PDF, and raw TSV. Also, it is built with #LaTeX (could easily tell by the underlined hyperrf toc links 🤓​ It is part of an encyclopedic project Palestinian Arabic dialect by NYU University in Abu Dhabi.

phillipdewet, to southafrica

Really, Oxford? You and I have spent many nights in vigorous thesaurusing, and I have few complaints about your performance.

But I dunno this time, hey. "" could easily be used for "tipsy", and even "buzzed", but drunk? Which is, by our own definition, "affected by alcohol to the extent of losing control of one's faculties or behaviour"?

Maybe as euphemism, but not seriously, no.

This may call for a sternly-worded letter.

iamdtms, to random
@iamdtms@mas.to avatar

Word #validator - #dictionary #search frontend v0.1 alpha1
-- needs improvement in search & dictionary as well:
https://iamdtms.github.io/word-validator/

iamdtms, to CSS
@iamdtms@mas.to avatar

Where's input[type=text] changes color on keyup, is it #accessable?
Let me show a bit later on, what I'm thinking 🤔 about. Valid inputs returns green 💚 backgrounds, invalid inputs returns ♥️ backgrounds. What do you think?

#css #html #js
#dictionary #app #ux

veronica, to random
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Heh, Merriam-Webster's words of the week this week are rather easy to relate to the news cycle:

  1. billionaire
  2. hypocrisy
  3. implode
  4. implosion
  5. Rubicon
  6. submersible

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-words-of-the-week-jun-23

#Dictionary #WordsOfTheWeek

stancarey, to SF

How old is "verse" (in the sense "universe; one of many universes in a multiverse")? @jessesheidlower's Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction dates it to 2002, in Firefly, but it may be older:
https://sfdictionary.com/view/2753/verse

I introduced the HD/SF here, btw:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/historical-dictionary-of-science-fiction/
#SF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #dictionary #lexicography #words #etymology

cindyweinstein, to random

That I will never know how to spell #ophthalmologist and must always look it up.

#ThingsIHaveComeToAccept
#HashtagGames
#words, #dictionary

kushal, to random
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Is there any #dictionary api to get example sentence for a given #Swedish word?

jessesheidlower, to random

A bit late reporting this, but last week, the indefatigable researcher Fred Shapiro found a clear 1906 example of "science fiction", in reference to H.G. Wells. Since (as with many terms) the early history is a bit muddled, this is an important discovery.

https://sfdictionary.com/view/209/science-fiction

(The first known example is from 1898 (also referring to Wells), with an 1897 quote (perhaps from the same person) in the sense 'a work of science fiction'.)

sabret00the, to Games
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