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The Man Who Coined ‘brexit’ First Appeared On Euractiv Blog

... many in Brussels, if not London, are still asking today. Brexit means…Brexit. Whilst the OED definition is both narrow – and vague – enough to satisfy most people, the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, has her own, more self-reflexive, definition: “Brexit means Brexit.”. Quite what that means, perhaps only May herself knows. The UK political class is currently engulfed in the argument – also lexicographical – over ‘hard Brexit’ versus ‘soft Brexit’. Or, as former minister Michael Gove, and other Leave campaigners, prefer ‘clean Brexit’ or ‘full Brexit’ should replace ‘hard Brexit’. Wilding, who was then working for Bsky B when he wrote the post, before leaving to set up British Influence , a cross-party Remain campaign, told Eur __link__ “The brutal truth of it is I wrote this blog post, and then promptly forgot all about it. “Until this summer I got a phone call saying that the Oxford English Dictionary were going to put it in [the dictionary], and I realised I must have coined it. “I can’t pretend there was any ‘lightbulb’ going off above ...

Top 10 Dictionaries

... levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid”. Naughty lexicography. 4. Oxford English Dictionary (1884-). Our greatest dictionary (I would say that) was planned as a comprehensive index of English, containing every word and meaning ever used. The 19 th-century editors soon realised that was too grand an aim: there was far too much esoteric scientific vocabulary, for example, that the ordinary, educated chap just didn’t need to know. So they left it out. But the dictionary soon settled down to include a glorious sweep of English of all types: formal, slang, British, American, South African, etc, and set the framework for national dictionaries across the world. 5. Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson (1886). This dictionary of the English of the Raj was cleverly titled to give the impression that it was compiled by Messrs Hobson and Jobson. In fact, Hobson-Jobson is an anglicisation of an anguished Muslim cry uttered “ in the procession of the Mo-harram ”. The language of Anglo-India was fading when Yule and Burnell compiled their lively and discursive compendium, but it ...

U Of T Scholars Have Spent 47 Years Painstakingly Trying To Preserve Old English

... the university. "​What we're trying to do in our dictionary that will supersede other dictionaries is to really look at all the records and all the evidence comprehensively," said drafting editor Robert Getz. The Dictionary of Old English is built upon a corpus that contains Old English texts and works including those carved in stone and jewelry. Old English is rooted in Germanic languages, including modern German, modern Dutch, as well as Scandinavian languages like Swedish. The goal is to document the earliest period of the English language, Getz said, and in the process, to uncover words never identified before. Take for instance, the word "hellwyrgen," a favourite of Getz. He defines it as a "female monster that lives in hell.". "What I love about this is, first off, it's so strange and exotic. Second of all, it wasn't in any dictionaries before. So in a way, I am proud to have discovered it.". "It's not everyday you get to discover an entirely new word.". Boost your Old English vocab. "Heoloþ-helm" is not your average ...

A New Dictionary To Explain All Those Hot-button Words

... issues. Many organizations have launched new efforts or redoubled their commitment to their core activities-like Living Room Conversations and its structured small group gatherings, in which people cross divides to engage in rich discussions on issues of concern. These renewed efforts at dialogue cannot come fast enough, say many practitioners in the field. The election, as they see it, exposed not only the nation's eroding ability to talk and listen across divides, but also the longtime exclusion of a profoundly disaffected population: white working-class individuals who feel that political elites and social change have left them behind. All of this calls for a rethinking of how dialogue is conducted, whom to include (everyone, ideally), and how we can get to a point where critical masses of people revert to dialogue instead of conflict as their first instinct. Learning what "the other side" means by "that word" is a good start. Which makes the All Sides Dictionary a valuable addition to the post-election dialogue landscape. As a regular contributor to Huffington Post Religion and an associate of an Episcopal monastery, John Backman writes on contemplative ...

Dictionary Folk Sum It Up

... There were also smaller spikes, including after the death of Prince in April at age 57 and after the June shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Irony mixed with the surreal for yet another bump after the March death of Garry Shandling. His first sitcom, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” premiered on Showtime in 1986 and had him busting through the fourth wall, speaking directly to the audience and mimicking his real life as a standup comedian, but one who knew he was starring in a TV show. “It was surreal and it’s connected to the actual original meaning of surreal, which is to say it comes from Surrealism, the artistic movement of the early 20 th century,” Sokolowski said. Which is to say that “surreal” didn’t exist as a word until around 1924, after a group of ...

How To Get A Pop-up Dictionary Enabled In Moon Reader

... app will alert you with a little green popup near the bottom of the screen that lets you know it doesn’t have a definition for the word you looked up. The solution is dead easy to implement and free, so it’s hard not to recommend as a go-to start place for a Moon+ Reader pop-up dictionary. The base app is free with ads and if you like the dictionary enough to support the developer, you can pay $1.99 to remove those ads. Download On Touch Dictionary. Text Aide. Text Aide is the most robust of these three options, but it’s also the one that takes the most setup to get right inside of Moon+ Reader. Text Aide itself isn’t limited to just defining words, either. If you’ve ever wanted to be able to have text macros on your phone, this is the app that will do that for you. In order to setup Text Aide inside of Moon+ ...