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Word of the Day: dulcian
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The dulcian is a Renaissance woodwind instrument, with a double reed and a folded conical bore.
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What are retronyms, and why do they exist?
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Words invented for existing concepts to distinguish them from something new are known as retronyms.
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Explore some new #Brexit lingo and other interesting #words which are hovering on the peripheries of dictionary inclusion.
From TEOTWAWKI to hoyay: words on the radar | OxfordWords blog
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Which words are our lexicographers looking carefully at right now? Here’s what’s on our radar this month.
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#Words like ‘attendee’ and ‘escapee’ are now much more frequent than ‘attender’ and ‘escaper’; does that mean that users of #English have it all wrong, or is there more to the story?
Escapee or escaper? Investigating –ee suffixes (and why they’re not always obvious) | OxfordWords blog
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The -ee suffix is typically added to a verb to form a noun denoting a person who is affected by the action expressed by the verb.
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Word of the Day: antepartum
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The antepartum period begins when a woman's pregnancy is diagnosed and ends once the baby is born.
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Why are opinions so divided on trigger warnings?
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Alerting people to potentially offensive or disturbing material isn't new, so how come trigger warnings are so controversial?
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Word of the Day: fungo
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The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.
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Word of the Day: j'adoube
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There have been occasions in chess history when a player has uttered j’adoube after making a losing move in order to retract it, thus attempting to avoid the touch-move rule.
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Word of the Day: ecad
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"Dwarf elephants" are examples of ecad, who evolved dwarf forms to adapt to resource-poor environments of small islands.
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Word of the Day: woodsia
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The Woodsia are commonly known as cliff ferns.
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Arthur Maling worked on the Oxford English Dictionary for over 40 years. Here #OED editor Peter Gilliver explains why Maling is a bit of a hero to him.
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Maling worked on the OED as one of James Murray’s assistant for nearly 30 years, and continued working on the Dictionary to the very end of the 1st edition.
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