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• The Ring of Words: From Winterfilth to Blotmath

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  J.R.R. Tolkien’s first job was as an assistant on the staff of the OED , and he later said that he had ‘learned more in those two years than in any other equal period of [his] life.’ In The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary , three senior OED editors – Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, ...
  18 hours ago

• Enter Single Text In Different Directories In Different Types – Synonymizer !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 439
  Now it is easy to spin text contents into various forms for using it in different purposes like submitting in web directories, article directories, Web 2.0 sites, blogs etc. At the same time, it is so simple to use, as it has only one function and everything adapted in a function. If you are going to use it, you have ...
  5 days ago

• What is Interpretation?

  
  Translation Blog — Authority: 120
  In my work as a translator, I often hear people, due to an understandable unfamiliarity, tell me that they once again needed an “ oral translation ”. I then deduce that the concept of “interpretation” is not well-known and that is why people who are not part of this small world of translation tend to be so ...
  1 week ago

• How to Call Someone “Stupid” in Old English Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  Lauren, Publicity Assistant It’s sad, but true. Historical Thesaurus week has come to an end. We feel like we’ve read it cover to cover (to cover to cover) and it’s hard to let go. And so, I’d like to leave you with a valuable lesson I learned: how to use the HTOED to call someone “stupid” in Old ...
  1 week ago

• Ammon Shea Digs Into the Historical Thesaurus Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  Lauren, Publicity Assistant Ammon Shea is a vocabularian, lexicographer, and the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages . In the videos below, he discusses the evolution of terms like “Love Affair” and names of diseases, as traced in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English ...
  1 week ago

• Historical Thesaurus Week – Christian Kay reflects

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  Professor Christian Kay joined the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary project in 1969, working on it right up to publication this month. In this original post, she reflects on the successes and challenges of forty years’ work on this amazing feat of scholarship. Click here to read more ...
  1 week ago

• Rewriting The Gettysburg Address: Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  Welcome to Historical Thesaurus Week on the OUPblog! Every day this week we will be looking at the first historical thesaurus to be written for any of the world’s languages, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary . Conceived and complied by the English Language Department of the University ...
  1 week ago

• Babylon YouTube Video Competition

  
  BrotherSoft Editor's Blog — Authority: 137
  Babylon, is now calling everyone of you, create and upload your personal movie to YouTube, telling us in your native language of your deep feelings with Babylon! Just create your movie, complete the following sentences , or add something of your own! Compete you A NEW 32GB iPod Touch!Questions:· [...]
  1 week ago

• Babylon YouTube Video Competition,Win a new iPod Touch!

  
  BrotherSoft Editor's Blog — Authority: 137
  Babylon, is now calling everyone of you, create and upload your personal movie to YouTube, telling us in your native language of your deep feelings with Babylon! Just create your movie, complete the following sentences , or add something of your own! Compete you A NEW 32GB iPod Touch!Questions:1. I love Babylon ...
  1 week ago

• Threedonia’s Word of the Day

  
  threedonia.com — Authority: 494
  One of the few perks of working in the salt mines called “Academia” is free online access to the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED — like most dictionaries — has a word of the day feature and while I don’t always like the word they choose I do like the concept of a word of the day. As an experiment I ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Historical Thesarus of the Oxford English Dictionary: Some fun facts and figuresHistorial Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  By Kirsty McHugh, OUP UK Today sees the long-awaited publication of The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary . Conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow , and based on the Oxford English Dictionary , it is the result of 44 years of scholarly labour. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Historical Thesaurus is a masterpiece worth waiting 40 years for

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  In a world infatuated with speed a new thesaurus proves the virtue of patience say Henry Hitchings.
  2 weeks ago

• Podictionary Interview – Philip Durkin

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast This is a special podictionary episode in which I interview Philip Durkin, the Principal Etymologist for The Oxford English Dictionary . I contacted Dr. Durkin because his book The Oxford Guide to Etymology was recently released in North America and he was ...
  3 weeks ago

• BlackBerry (Storm, Tour, Bold, Curve) Free Dictionary Apps2Day: Acronyms, Names & Dreams

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 445
  While Boy Genius Reports that the new BlackBerry Storm 2 is “nothing short of fantastic.”  Surepress has is now a “viable touchscreen mechanism.” BlackBerry Storm apps are now coming into the mainstream. BEIKS software is offering some useful free dictionaries : English Acronyms Dictionary, Bible ...
  8 weeks ago

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