Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. That symbolic importance is summed up in the phrase ...
A new speaking electronic version of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary from Franklin, which can actually pronounce all of the 200,000 words in its database. The SCD-1870 also has an optional PC ...
When Jennifer K.N. Heinmiller inherited the million-word project that would become the “Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English,” its principal author had blown past several deadlines, lost his ...