N-gated Hacker News5h ago
🧐 Behold, half a million “words with spaces” the dictionary gatekeepers have conspired to omit! 🤯 Boiling water and Saturday night, lost classics of lexicography! Thanks to our word-game hero, armed with a slider, the linguistic universe will never be the same! 😂📚
https://www.linguabase.org/words-with-spaces.html #wordswithspaces #lexicography #wordgames #languageinnovation #lostclassics #HackerNews #ngated
Words with Spaces - Linguabase

Jens Mittelbach5d ago

A treasure trove of English lowlife now costs you nothing. Green’s Dictionary of Slang—the definitive historical record of vulgarities, slurs and other ne’er-do-well words—is now free to read online.
#slang #language #lexicography

https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/largest-dictionary-of-english-language-slang-now-free-online.html

Largest dictionary of English-language slang now free online

‘Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is, ever has been...or is ever likely to be,’ according to the Journal of English Language and Linguistics.

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Jonas R. (er/ihm)6d ago

Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/

#lexicography #Germanistik #dictionaries #xkcd #mittelhochdeutsch

Mark A. RaynerFeb 8

Enjoying this mallifuff Sunday.

#sundayfunday #humor #humour #lexicography

Show threadStan CareyJan 15

And from the same site, I enjoyed this rant about a New Yorker article about dictionary-making https://languagehat.com/menand-on-the-dictionary/

#dictionaries #lexicography #language #words #MerriamWebster #blog

Menand on the Dictionary. : languagehat.com

That Word ChatJan 12

Tomorrow is That Word Chat’s annual #WordOfTheYear show! We’ll be breaking down the words of 2025 (slop, rage bait, parasocial, vibe coding…).

Grab your virtual seat: ThatWordChat.com

#ThatWordChat #WOTY #Language #Lexicography

Jonathan EmmesediJan 2

https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/

Not all of "Commentary" is superfluous!

#Lexicography #Dictionaries

You Can Look It Up

How the thing said Is in the words, how The words themselves The thing said . . . A word, that’s the poem.          —James Schuyler How

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Andrew AbdalianDec 21

A few entries from the language section of The Standard Dictionary of Facts, published 1920 and recently purchased by me. Looking forward to reading through all the prescriptivist entries to see what sort of language use people were fretting about over a century ago.

(I particularly love the entry for “dearest”, which made me laugh out loud.)

#language #linguistics #prescriptivism #lexicography

Wayne RadinskyDec 20

"2025 Word of the Year: Slop" according to Merriam-Webster.com

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #lexicography #wordoftheyear

2025 Word of the Year: Slop

Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year

novaTopFlexDec 19

Hype for the Future 49D: The Galician Language

In Galicia, the regional language is effectively as if a mix of Spanish and Portuguese. However, the overall syntax of the nation is significantly more akin to Portuguese than Spanish, though the orthography of the Galician language has often been criticized within Galicia for being excessively Castilianized. The regional movement of Reintegrationism in the Galician context attempts to dispel the Castilian concerns regarding linguistic syntax by promoting the idea that Galician and the […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/hype-for-the-future-49d-the-galician-language/

Hype for the Future 49D: The Galician Language

In Galicia, the regional language is effectively as if a mix of Spanish and Portuguese. However, the overall syntax of the nation is significantly more akin to Portuguese than Spanish, though the o…

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