dictionaries
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Thanks, Greta: ‘Climate Strike’ Is A Word Of The Year
2019 is about to wrap, which means dictionaries are choosing their words of the year. For Collins Dictionary, “climate strike” took the prize.
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Picture Dictionary Replaces Definitions With Google Images
It won’t help you improve your vocabulary, but Ben West and Felix Heyes‘s Google dictionary will keep you up to speed on internet fads and memes. That’s because instead of definitions, the book’s pages are populated with Google Images search results.
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Official Merriam-Webster Dictionary App Arrives On Android
Android: Globally respected dictionary Merriam-Webster recently launched its eponymous dictionary on Android devices, joining its already available iPhone and iPad apps.
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Oxford English Dictionary Hearts <3 As First Purely Symbolic Word
The stuffy old OED—the last word in what is and is not the English language – has decreed that <3 is a word. Or rather, the vertical version of that. It’s the first time a symbol has been included as a word. Death of the English language? Natural lexicographic evolution? Just a way to screw…