January 2020

Who needs a school dictionary these days? It's easier to search on Google, isn't it? Bad! Google may have the facts you're looking for, but chances are the language expressing those facts isn't appropriate for your child's age group,…

the Oxford English Dictionary (WD) doesn't just define words. It gives alternative spellings, etymologies, and examples of their uses in citations from printed texts. And it does so, as the original column put it, “on historical…