#oed

[ananayellow]

Our birth

[evilvampwhore]

Why can’t I just fucking stop eating shit

[teepeecider]

It’s Māori language week in Aotearoa and The Oxford English Dictionary has just added quite a few Māori words that have crossed over in to common Pākehā usage. One is bc mahi - used in Māori contexts to mean work, activity, occupation, or employment". So I have been doing the mahi waterblasting the cidery yard. #Māori #TeReo #OED

[coeurdeverre82]

'a euphemistic substitution for gorblimey' wtf england lol

[intelligentchristianlady]

Look what I found! Click the link ;)

[celexial]

July 3rd, 2023

Currently reading: The Professor and the Madman

[shakespearenews]

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.

[earhartsease]

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"

[borrowingcapybaras]

"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]

[linguisticalities]

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.

[postcard-from-the-past]

View of Oed, Weigendorf, Bavaria, Germany

German vintage postcard, mailed in 1964 to Nürnberg

[thoughtportal]

Ruth Joffre

[monriatitans]

WORD OF THE DAY Sunday, February 19, 2023 OED Word of the Day: urbiculture, n. The development of towns and cities and urban life; the pursuit or cultivation of urban interests. Also: the influence of urban culture on the rural environment.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Millions of city dwellers have swarmed into the countryside to set a new and increasingly widespread pattern of life which is sometimes called ‘rurbanisation’, sometimes ‘urbiculture’." - 1959, Economist 30 May 850/1

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[stillknowntobequitevexxing]

You won't see them touring anymore and we have no real idea why. But One Eyed Doll is just...

Their media only recently got put back on YouTube and Spotify. I love them with my entire being.

Please please please reblog this and put in the tags your music recommendations. I’m not talking about big artists and bands either— what’s a niche group, band, or artist that you can’t get enough of? What song or album do you enjoy the most? Why?