#oed

[headspace-hotel]

it's fun to look at the recently added words to the Oxford English Dictionary

within the last 30-40 years the additions are noticeably colored by projections of historical and cultural relevance—it seems really biased towards documenting words that feel characteristic of the current time or that Say A Lot About Our Society

So there's a lot of them that are like okay I think you jumped the gun on this one

[ananayellow]

Our birth

[evilhomoashell]

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

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[fuckyeahfightlock]

"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

[intelligentchristianlady]

Look what I found! Click the link ;)

[nachosncheezies]

Request!!!

Does anyone out there have institutional/library access to OED (Oxford English dictionary) etymology database and willing to grab an entry for me? 🙏

[annalearnsstuff]

🌧️January 17th 🌧️

A rainy day spent catching up on some vocab :)

[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]