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There's a word that describes the smell after rain, another for the rumble of a hungry stomach and one for when you don't want to get out of bed. "Whimsey" columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS bets you haven't heard of them…
For the last three to five years — not exactly sure how long — I’ve been working on a book. As a writer of sorts, I feel obligated to give
Explore dictionaries of various shapes, sizes, languages and subjects from the Library's collection.
'Dictionary of the English Language,' published in 1755, remained the foremost dictionary of British English until the early 1900s when the very first installments of the Oxford English Dictionary began to appear.
The OED’s task – to define in full the world’s most spoken language – is as ambitious and endless as it was when it began 150 years ago.