Lack of sensical example sentences even in OED flummoxes Angwin
(NEWSER) - Nowadays, Google is just about as good a reference as the Oxford English Dictionary—or better, Julia Angwin writes in the Wall Street Journal. Type in a misspelled word, and the search engine corrects it. What’s more, Google will display a trove of up-to-date articles using the word, something the OED, with its fusty 19th-century examples, doesn’t do well. Still, Google is not a dictionary—where’s the reference book of today? More»