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Posted on February 21, 2019

You are not alone: the word “sonder”

I recently came across the word “sonder” Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that…

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Posted on May 31, 2018May 31, 2018

I have been using “cf.” wrongly for my entire life

Number theory was famously described as absolutely, gloriously useless by G H Hardy, but is now vital for encryption and therefore the digital economy (and all else “e”) While looking…

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Posted on August 30, 2017August 30, 2017

Was the term “bed and breakfast” first used in 1978? (as well as “Tinseltown”)

Merriam-Webster have a fun online toy which you use to enter a year and purports to show you the words that first appeared in print that year. (I came across…

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Posted on January 25, 2017

2008: “How technical should dictionaries get in their definitions?”

Further continuing my rather self-indulgent nostalgia trip, here is a post I had entirely forgotten from 2008: A chap called Ammon Shea has written a a very funny sounding book about…

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