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oxford english dictionary stories: 4 news summaries
OPINION

Google Is Top Online Dictionary, But in Weak Field

Lack of sensical example sentences even in OED flummoxes Angwin

Sep 7, 09 4:20 PM CDT
(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,... More »

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Google • Internet • definition • oxford english dictionary • dictionary • reference • Wordnik • example • word usage

 Web Dictionary Plans 
 to Outdo Print Cousins 

New features and bigger capacity make Wordnik a revolution in lexicography

Mar 16, 09 5:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ever stumbled across an unfamiliar word and wondered not only what it means, but what it looks and sounds like? Or what other words it appears alongside most often, and how many times it’s been used in print this year? The revolutionary new dictionary Wordnik, set to go online... More »

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Internet • online • oxford english dictionary • lexicography • dictionary • words • English language

OPINION

 Has It Gone, Or
 Just Gone Online?  

NYT columnist gets nervous as Oxford Dictionary hits the web

May 11, 08 5:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Internet • Wikipedia • Dictionary.com • online • oxford english dictionary • dictionary • online book • thesaurus

Hyphen Takes a
Knockout Blow

Or should that still
be knock-out?
Dictionary drops
16,000 of them

Sep 21, 07 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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oxford english dictionary • punctuation

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