Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue from 1811 becomes online hit
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| It was first available when Britain was under threat from Napoleon but it has now been re-published for free at the Project Gutenberg online digital library. The book includes gems suchs as 'ace of spades' for a widow, 'all-a-mort' to be struck dumb, and 'angling for farthings', which means to beg out of a prison window with a cap or box. The dictionary has already become an online hit. A selection of words can be found here. Explaining the book in the preface at the time, the author writes "The merit of Captain Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue has... |
The lost letters of the Vatican Dictionary
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| The Vatican Insider has published an online Vatican dictionary. The site promises that you can understand your faith's terms from "A divinis" to "Zucchetto"! However, there are still a few letters not accounted for. J, K, Q, W, X, Y have no words as of this writing. No "juris"? And don't we have lots of "q" words? Not to fear, I've come up with some of the missing letters from the Diocese of Jackson and thereabouts. I even made child-friendly flashcards to go with them! The rhymes are a bit off but I'm not a poet, and I know it.... |
American Heritage Dictionary adds 'offensive' to 'anchor baby'
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| American Heritage Dictionary adds 'offensive' to 'anchor baby'By Breann Bierman Updated: Dec 06, 2011 3:30 PM EST PHOENIX (KPHO) - The American Heritage Dictionary has added "offensive" to the definition of "anchor baby" in the dictionary after criticism from Latino groups. Immigrationimpact.com, a project of the nonprofit American Immigration Council, questioned the inclusion of the "anchor baby" definition. On their website, they describe the new definition as "one that was crafted to reflect more accurately just how artificial a term it really is." The online version of the American Heritage Dictionary now defines "anchor baby" as: "Offensive Used as a... |
In N.H., technocrat Romney vs. preacher Perry
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| MANCHESTER, N.H. — They have debated on the same stage five times, but rarely have the contrasts between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry been more in evidence than during separate appearances here Friday night. It was Romney the careful technocrat versus Perry the unplugged preacher. snip One such question came from a man who told Romney that “everything you said in your introduction was wonderful” but who questioned some of the details of the former Massachusetts governor’s priorities. “I’m just not seeing how that adds up,” he said. snip An hour later, Perry took the stage at a downtown hotel... |
Where to Purchase PM? Your Experience Please
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| So where have you bought and how? How do you manage it? I somehow cannot wrap my mind around it. Thanks |
Oxford defines 'muffin top,' heart symbol
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| OXFORD, England - Britain's Oxford University Press said the latest Oxford English Dictionary includes definitions for "muffin top," "tinfoil hat" and the heart symbol. The publisher announced Thursday "muffin top" will feature two definitions, one referring to the top half of a muffin and one referring to "a protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers." The new dictionary also features a definition for the heart symbol, the first symbol to appear in the dictionary, as a synonym for love. "Tinfoil hat" is defined in the book as a popular headgear for those wishing to avoid... |
Death of the published dictionary: Oxford English Dictionary to exist solely online
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| It was first published 126 years ago and is respected the world over. But the Oxford English Dictionary will never appear in print again, its owners have announced. Instead, the 80 lexicographers who have been working on the third edition for the past 21 years have been told the fruits of their labour will exist solely online. The OED has been available on the internet for the past ten years and receives two million hits a month from subscribers who pay £205 a year, plus VAT, to access it. Oxford University Press says the dominance of the internet... |
Vuvuzela enters Oxford English Dictionary Vuvuzela enters Oxford English Dictionary
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| It blasted its way into our eardrums throughout the World Cup - and now the vuvuzela is set to make a big noise in the dictionary. The long South African horn was used incessantly through every match in the tournament. And the vuvuzela is one of more than 2,000 new words and phrases included in the Oxford Dictionary of English for the first time. Other newcomers include tweetup (a meeting arranged through Twitter), cheeseball (lacking taste or style) and a turducken (a roast dish consisting of a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey). Paywall (which restricts website access to... |
The American Minute: April 14, 2010 - Noah Webster - Christian Faith / Private Property
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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The American Minute for April 14, 2010: Noah Webster first published his Dictionary on APRIL 14, 1828. This 26-year project with 30,000 new definitions, standardized spelling and gave American English its identity. Proving unprofitable, the rights were purchased after his death by George and Charles Merriam. In the preface of his original edition, Noah Webster wrote: "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the...
Democrat Dictionary
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| Taxsperity - The uniquely moronic notion that prosperity can be achieved through increases in taxation. Biparthenasia - The art of killing the opposition party by encouraging them to join your foolhardy efforts. Stimuslush - Urgently passing a bill under the pretense of saving us from depression only to hold on to the money for eighteen months in order to spend it as close to an election as possible. Filibluster - The blatantly false threat of removing the 60 vote cloture requirement in the US Senate. Even if they could, they never would because they know minority status is in their... |
California School District Bans Dictionary Over 'Oral Sex' Definition
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| A California school district has added a new book to the controversial list of literature that is considered unfit for young eyes. It's the dictionary. The Golden State's Menifee Union School District has yanked all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from its shelves and is investigating the classic American text for containing "age-inappropriate" words. The trouble started when an inquisitive student got lost somewhere between "oralism" and "orang" and found a rather recent entry to the lexicon: "oral sex," a phrase that has been in common parlance since 1973 but still makes many parents fairly hot under the collar. Menifee... |
Banned dictionary to return to Riverside County school (CA)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| After being pulled from the shelves for what some saw as racy content, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary may have the last word in Menifee. A committee of parents, teachers and administrators decided Tuesday to return the dictionaries to the fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms at Oak Meadows Elementary School just days after they were removed over complaints about entries detailing references to various types of oral sex. "The dictionary will go back to the classroom but the parents will be given the option to determine if they want their kids to have access to that dictionary," said Betti Cadmus, a spokeswoman... |
Menifee District Pulls Dictionaries Over Sex Term (Time To Label The Dictionary PG13)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| A Southern California school district has pulled dictionaries from classrooms because a parent complained when a child came across the term "oral sex." District officials said Friday that the Menifee Union School District -- which serves 9,000 kindergartners through eight graders in Riverside County -- is forming a committee to consider a permanent classroom ban of the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. A memo from Assistant Superintendent Karen Valdes acknowledged it is a respected resource but district officials found that "a number of referenced words are age-inappropriate." Some parents and free-speech advocates said the district is overreacting. Peter Scheer, executive director... |
Menifee school panel will review banned dictionary
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| The Menifee Union School District is forming a committee to review whether dictionaries containing the definitions for sexual terms should be permanently banned from the district's classrooms, a district official said Friday. The 9,000-student K-8 district this week pulled all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary after an Oak Meadows Elementary School parent complained about a child stumbling across definitions for "oral sex." The decision was made without consultation with the district's school board and has raised concerns among First Amendment experts and some parents. Other parents and Menifee residents, though, have praised the district's decision, saying a collegiate-level dictionary is... |
Republican Judge Sworn in on a Dictionary (No Bible could be found)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| New York: Incoming Ulster County judge Donald A. Williams has been sworn into office with his left hand on a dictionary instead of a book of scripture. When the time came to swear in Williams, a Republican, no Bible could be found so the former district attorney took his oath on a dictionary. Williams was unconcerned by the substitution, saying that the swearing-in is ceremonial only. There is no requirement for officials to be sworn in on a Bible but most choose to do so, many with their own family Bible. The substitution in this case reportedly injected 'a light... |
Incendiary Device Found In Philly Parking Garage Along with Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestinian Books..
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| Evil has certainly been unleashed. It's a damn firestorm. It sitnks from the top down ......... the free world has been taken siege. And that muhammadan in the White House denands we respect this evil. Molotov Cocktail Found In Downtown Parking Garage CBS3 News hat tip MikeThe discovery was made at about 2:00 p.m. Wednesday inside a parking garagelocated at Callowhill and N. 16th Streets.Philadelphia Police are investigating the discovery of a Molotov cocktail along with anti-Israeli books inside a Center City parking garage. The discovery was made at about 2:00 p.m. Wednesday inside a garage located at Callowhill and... |
New RNC ad introduces Obama to a dictionary
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| You'll recall when Obama made the rounds of the Sunday shows last week, he was asked by George Stephanopoulos why a federal requirement to either buy health insurance or pay a penalty isn't a tax. Obama scoffed at the absurdity of the question and ol' George busted out the dictionary to show our Harvard-educated president the definition of a tax. The RNC decided it would make good theater. |
Obama And The HUGE Health Care Tax That He Simply Refuses To Call A Tax
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| At the Oct. 7 presidential debate, Barack Obama said, "If you make less than a quarter of a million dollars a year, you will not see a single dime of your taxes go up. If you make $200,000 a year or less, your taxes will go down."I point this out so that you realize that Obama supports your (note: use any word but "taxes" here) going up by 85800 dimes if your family makes $66,000 a year. More on that later. And as part of my "I told you so" moment, allow me to cite my October 2008 article entitled... |
Discombobamulate
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| Discombobamulate verb, humorous to disconcert or confuse someone on account of manipulations of President Obama's name variations: Discombobamulation: the act of promulgating manipulations of President Obama's name Discombobamulated: to suffer emotional distress over manipulations of President Obama's name |
Tortured Terminology
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| ... Back then little specific information was released concerning the treatment of the Guantánamo gang, yet insinuated was that prisoners were being mistreated and that ‘torture’ was being practiced. This caught my attention because the media tossed the term ‘torture’ about with characteristic abandon. You would think that people who use words to earn their daily grub might take the same care of their tools that an auto mechanic does with his. Sadly modern reporters seem to be one step removed from journalist and two steps from literate. ... I decided to have the definition of ‘torture’ logged firmly in... |
The Professor and the Madman
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| The title of this column is also the title of a book by Simon Winchester, published in 1998. The subtitle introduces the three, seemingly unrelated subjects of the book, “A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.” I’d never heard of this book. It was only in the house because it was in Michelle’s apartment in New York. And it was there only because she ran a book sale at her church in Manhattan, and it was an orphan – donated for sale but not bought by anyone. Yet it turned out to be an... |
Merriam Webster dictionary changes the definition of marriage
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| States may be debating gay marriage. People may be voting on it. Tempers may be flaring on both sides of the issue. But society’s uncertainty hasn’t stopped the good liberals at Merriam Webster from defining marriage any damn way they want it defined. The second definition of the word is now, “the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage.” ...excerpt |
Gay marriage gets recognition _ in the dictionary
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| SAN FRANCISCO - Same-sex marriage might not be recognized in most states, but it is in the dictionary. Merriam-Webster included a secondary definition of marriage to recognize same-sex relationships several years before gay couples were allowed to tie the knot anywhere in the United States, but the change had gone largely unnoticed until the conservative World Net Daily news site reported it Tuesday. "One of the nation's most prominent dictionary companies has resolved the argument over whether the term 'marriage' should apply to same-sex duos or be reserved for the institution that has held families together for millennia: by simply... |
Webster's dictionary redefines 'marriage'
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| One of the nation's most prominent dictionary companies has resolved the argument over whether the term "marriage" should apply to same-sex duos or be reserved for the institution that has held families together for millennia: by simply writing a new definition. "I was shocked to see that Merriam-Webster changed their definition of the word 'marriage,' a word which has referred exclusively to a contract between a man and a woman for centuries. It has now added same sex," YouTube user Eric B. noted to WND. "The 1992 Webster's Dictionary does not mention same sex at all," he wrote. He created... |
Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Christian Words
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:07:53 AM
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| The latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has dropped many words associated with Christianity and British history that were found in earlier versions. Christian-related words like "bishop," "chapel," "disciple," "minister," "sin," and "devil," have been replaced by words like "blog," "biodegradable," "MP3 player," "democratic," and "celebrity," in the 2007 edition of the popular children's dictionary in the United Kingdom. Although the newest version of the dictionary was released last year, the removal of words went largely unnoticed until Lisa Saunders, a mother of four from Northern Ireland, pointed them out. She first realized the omission of words during a... |
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