Dictionary Housekeeping
Did you know that dictionaries delete words from time to time and change their definitions? It's true. Here is a website of lost words. Interesting, interesting. Check it out.
posted by Heather @ 22:38
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Monday, July 03, 2006
About Me
- Name: Heather
- Location: Ashburn, VA, United States
This blog began as a way to stay in touch with family and friends when I was living in France. It has evolved into a way for me to chronicle my life, adventures, and therapeutic rants through graduate school, single-dom, adult life, and now older child adoption through foster care.
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- Art in Cuba
- American in Paris
1 Comments:
That's why it usually bugs me when someone starts off a talk (or an essay) by saying, "the dictionary defines X as ..." A good dictionary shows how people actually use words, not what they supposedly "really" mean as though that were carved in stone somewhere.
Yeah, words are fun. :-)
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