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gatopidao · 23 days

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ananayellow · 1 month

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Our birth

#myart #artms #birth #loona #oed #loona fanart

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fuckyeahfightlock · 3 months

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"Don't you love the Oxford dictionary? The first time I read it, I thought it was just a long poem about everything." --David Bowie

#Bowie #OED #two formative experiences

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whatareyoureallyafraidof · 1 year

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#Goblin mode #Goblin #Oxford English Dictionary #OED #word of the year #slang #English #language

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annalearnsstuff · 1 year

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🌧️January 17th 🌧️

A rainy day spent catching up on some vocab :)

#bookblr #chaotic academia #studyblr #bookworm #me #university #bookstagram #study motivation #books #oed #college #anne brontë

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celexial · 10 months

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July 3rd, 2023

Currently reading: The Professor and the Madman

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shakespearenews · 9 months

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Forever and a Day This exaggerated way of saying “a really long time” would have been considered poetic in the sixteenth century. William Shakespeare popularized the saying in his play The Taming of the Shrew (probably written in the early 1590s and first printed in 1623).

Though Shakespeare is often credited with coining the phrase, he wasn’t the first writer to use it. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Thomas Paynell’s translation of Ulrich von Hutten’s De Morbo Gallico put the words in a much less romantic context. The treatise on the French disease, or syphilis, includes the sentence: “Let them bid farewell forever and a day to these, that go about to restore us from diseases with their disputations.” And it’s very possible it’s a folk alteration of a much earlier phrase: Forever and aye (or ay—usually rhymes with day) is attested as early as the 1400s, with the OED defining aye as “ever, always, continually”—meaning forever and aye can be taken to mean “for all future as well as present time.”

He may not have invented it, but Shakespeare did help make the saying a cliché; the phrase has been used so much that it now elicits groans instead of swoons. Even he couldn’t resist reusing it: Forever and a day also appears in his comedy As You Like It, written around 1600.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #taming #the taming of the shrew #forever and a day #lithub #as you like it #Cliches #idiom #language #english #oed

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kj-bishop · 5 months

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#words #vocabulary #language #books #ammon shea #dictionary #oed

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earhartsease · 1 year

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few things have given us more delight this night than searching for "go ham" in the Oxford English Dictionary Online and having it ask "did you mean Gotham"

#dictionaries #oed #gotham #going full ham

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linguisticalities · 7 months

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Another great book on the greatest book of words. The review contains links to several others, the best of which is Caught in the Web of Words, a biography by Murray’s grand-daughter, and the slightest of which—but certainly the most salacious—is The Professor and the Madman, by Simon WInchester.

#lexicography #dictionaries #OED

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borrowingcapybaras · 1 year

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"They" has been in the English language as a singular pronoun (not just plural) since the 1300s, and singular "they" actually pre-dates singular "you". [Source]

#figured i'd make my own post #they #they/them #pronouns #oxford english dictionary #oed #trans #nonbinary #queer #source #citation #language #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

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postcard-from-the-past · 7 months

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View of Oed, Weigendorf, Bavaria, Germany

German vintage postcard, mailed in 1964 to Nürnberg

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nightmareduckling · 1 year

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It makes me very sad to know that there will probably never be a print version of the Oxford English Dictionary 3rd edition and you should be sad too.

#oxford english dictionary #dictionary #lexicography #Lexipedia #I always wanted a complete copy #Anyone have an unused one lying around?#I like big books and I cannot lie #If the complete OED fell on you would definitely die #Complete and unabridged #Books #word meaning #OED

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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Ruth Joffre

#fiction #girl #OED #short fiction #flash fiction #short stories #short story #horror stories #horror writers #women writers #horror #etymology #word history #mythology #monster #monsters #nightmare magazine

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monriatitans · 1 year

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QUOTE OF THE DAY Monday, December 26, 2022

"Let us burn bright as the gentle epitome of ahava. Let us live life as a walking and talking menorah." - Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

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Quote choice inspired by Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day: hanukkiah.

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sepiida · 1 year

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The Oxford English dictionary has announced their word of the year...

"The Oxford Word of the Year is a word or expression reflecting the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the past twelve months, one that has potential as a term of lasting cultural significance."

#word of the year #oed #mood #goblin mode #unintelligible goblin noises #2022

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