Oxford American Dictionaries has selected its annual "Word of the Year," and that word is GIF. You are already familiar with GIF as in Graphics Interchange Format, or this images that change and move. the Word of the Yea...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/12/The-Word-of-the-Year/
The folks at Oxford have added some new, modern wo... ...some new, modern words. Not to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) itself, but to the Oxford Dictionary Online, which is what most of us use, anyway.Let&... ...e also: recent words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/23/New-Words-Added-the-The-Oxford-Dictionary-Online/
When London designers Ben West and... ...Felix Heyes decided to create a visual dictionary of sorts, they knew exactly where to go: Google I... ...le Images. The duo printed a 1,240-page dictionary using the first image that Google has f... ...00 words you'd normally find inside...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/03/visualizing-the-dictionary-with-google-images/
Last week, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED to you logophiles) added a new ent... ...added a new entries into its venerable dictionary . I'm pretty sure you've heard of some of t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/woot-oed-added-new-tech-words/
If you’re like me you constantly have trouble co... ...think of the word. Luckily there is now a Reverse Dictionary
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/09/the-reverse-dictionary/
Jim Lewin received a stack of old magazines at his... ...1920s. A July 1922 issue contained "The Flapper's Dictionary ," a glossary of hot slang terms of the time, whic...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/11/the-flappers-dictionary/
Tired of your old dictionary ? Do you find the OED to be just a little bit st... ...your word in the OEDILF - the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form. This is a crowdsourced projec... ...ONLY." The estimated date for completion of the dictionary is 17 Oct 20...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/03/the-omnificent-english-dictionary-in-limerick-form/
In 2001, the Homer Simpson expression "Doh!" was e... ...ession "Doh!" was entered into The Oxford English Dictionary . Jeff Wysaski of guyism proposes that ten invent... ...en’t for the fact that the Webster’s American dictionary added it to their “New Millenium” edition a f...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/09/10-fake-simpsons-words-that-belong-in-the-dictionary/
The folks who bring you the Merriam-Webster dictionary select their top words of the year not by how tre... ...hich words are the most looked up in their online dictionary . This year, nine of the top ten words are easily...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/merriam-websters-top-words-of-2009/
Social networking on the internet has given us ple... ..."social networking"), and the New Oxford American Dictionary is paying attention. The publishers announced tha... ...Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking conte...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/17/oxford-word-of-the-year-2009-unfriend/
