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Word Up: British Dictionary Just Twigs to 'Chill Pill'

LONDON (Aug. 20) -- Ever defriended a hater or chillaxed with a vuvuzela? No? Well, apparently a lot of other people have, because along with 2,000 other terms, those ungainly words have just been granted a place in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English. Unlike the more prestigious multivolume Oxford...

Unused but Useful: Oxford English Dictionary's Reject List

LONDON (Aug. 6) -- Ever engaged a freegan in nonversation, or does the very idea make you want to precuperate? If you haven't a clue what we're talking about, don't worry, you're probably not xenolexic. The bizarre terms used in those last two sentences are "non words": Words that have allegedly been submitted to the...

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11 Funny Words From The Dictionary of American Regional English

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06/01/12 Google Images Define Words in New Dictionary Source: Search Engine Watch A new image-based dictionary bearing Google's name is a bit different and operates on the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words, replacing every definition with the first image that showed up in a Google Images search for that name.
06/01/12 E-database of dictionaries established Source: Today.Az Azerbaijan will create an electronic database of materials collected to date in lexicography, member of the state commission on the language, department head of the Linguistics Institute of the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences Ismail Mammadov told Trend.
05/30/12 Google Image Dictionary is Even Less Reliable Than... Source: [technabob] I use it everyday when I write, because truth be told I don't know what all these symbols mean.
05/29/12 OUP research reveals children's imaginative language... Source: PhysOrg.com The research was compiled by lexicographers in OUP's Childrens Dictionaries team based on an analysis of thousands of short stories sent into a BBC radio competition for children in the UK.
05/24/12 Kankakee: A message on the move Source: The Daily Journal - Kankakee IL Joe Begley Jr., is a single father, a solid employee, a deacon at his church, and the man you try to keep up with in fitness classes these days.

Background on dictionaries

A dictionary (also called a wordbook, lexicon or vocabulary) is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon.

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