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May 2008
- Has It Gone, Or Just Gone Online?
  
  newser | New York Times | May 11, 08 5:06 PM CDT
  
  The Oxford English Dictionary—the 3-volume one with the magnifying glass—has ditched its hard copy and gone digital for good, which makes one "bookish middle-class" writer nervous. "Other totemic college books could go out of style, maybe," Virginia Heffernan writes in the New York Times . But "the OED was forever. Wasn’t it?" More »
  
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  Internet • Wikipedia • online • dictionary • online book • oxford english dictionary • Dictionary.com
September 2007
- Hyphen Takes a Knockout Blow
  
  newser | BBC | Sep 21, 07 9:17 AM CDT
  
  The new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has far fewer of everyone's favorite little connector. Editors have dropped 16,000 hyphens from all sorts of compound words: "Fig-leaf" is now "fig leaf," "chick-pea" has become "chickpea." Email is the culprit, reports the BBC: writers no longer have time or patience to reach for the hypyen key. Says the Shorter's editor, "It's starting to look a lot like something your grandmother might write." More »
  
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