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Friday, August 12, 2005

I Heart Etymology

Posted by on August 12 at 11:24 AM

So… the revised second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary may be out (thanks, Maud Newton), but you still have to pay loads of money to get access, unless you’re affiliated with an educational institution or your publisher boss is really, really nice (eh, Mr. Keck? how about it?). But I just discovered the OED Word of the Day, which is way better than any other words of the day out there, because (duh!) they’re down with exhaustive etymology.

Also fun: the new BBC appeal for amateur etymologists. Who’s a dork!?