Sunday, August 29, 2010

You'll just have to google it!

Sad to read about the demise of the book version of the Oxford English Dictionary, but if there is one area where the internet scores over the printed word, this is it. As has been mentioned over and over again on this blog, language is forever evolving, and this means that printed dictionaries are doomed to always be chasing the fire - whereas the internet is far more capable of reflecting subtle changes in meaning as they occur and can introduce new words as and when they come into fashion. The OED has simply accepted the inevitable.

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