Thesaurus

Compendious philological volumes

Arts, Culture & Media

Forsooth, the next item on our reference-book most-wanted list this fall is going to be the new Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, due out in October. Forty-four years in the making, this puppy’s got 800,000 words (‘almost every word,’ they claim, from Old English to the present)–that’s more than double the size of […]

Salmon

Why we all need a little respect for the word ‘moist’

Arts

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