Organikos posted: " The origins and particular uses of words have been of interest in these pages since early on, partly because the terminology around conservation is relatively young in human history; also because words are essential to the cause. Stephanie Hayes, writ" Organikos
A new book gives life to one of the world's greatest crowdsourcing efforts.
The Oxford English Dictionary always seemed to me like the Rules from on high—near biblical, laid down long ago by a distant academic elite. But back in 1857, when the idea of the dictionary was born, its three founders proposed something more democratic than authoritative: a reference book that didn't prescribe but instead described English, tracking the meaning of every word in the language across time and laying out how people were actually using each one.
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