Dictionary words

This blog post is in response to a request for a vintage dictionary page that includes the word “luck”. Some of the other words included on the page are: lovely, loving, lower case, lowing, loyal, lucern, lucky and lucrative. I scanned the original page from a dictionary in my collection that was published in 1922....Read More

From ‘hammajang’ to ‘munted’, lexicographers have issued a worldwide call for regionally distinctive words to define

I’m pretty flawsome. 😂🎉❤️😊

This aged page, from a vintage dictionary in my collection that was published in 1922, includes the words: ease, easel, east, Easter, easy, eat and ebony. Click on image to enlarge. Related posts that may interest you: Free Vintage Clip Art Dictionary Page Bake Sparkle Sparrow Spatula ~ Free Dictionary Graphic Moth, Mother, Motorcycle ~...Read More

As a linguist, I gotta say, dictionaries are hella interesting, not just because of the obscure etymologies or weird words you can find in them, but because of the rare and unheard of meanings that ordinary everyday words can have.

Just look it up—or look here to check out the dish on dictionaries that logophiles will love! (Logophile means word lover!)

Todays #WordOfTheDay is: Ravishing Truly an emotional word to describe beauty 😍 #beauty #scrabble #words #beautiful #dictionary

Massachusetts Lowell High School Teacher, James Callahan, has created a spreadsheet of all the terms his students have used this year along with his best attempt to explain what each of them mean.

The offensive word - which has been added under the 'c' section - joins nearly 900 other terms newly added to the reference collection.