@anna

It's like the Oxford English Dictionary's entry for "water". Which goes on for •pages•....

@cavyherd I think it was this recent episode of No Such Thing As A Fish in which they briefly discussed Emily Brewster discovering a new meaning of "a(n)": https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/no-such-thing-as-gutter-ice/id840986946?i=1000747203795

Couldn't quickly find an original source for that claim, tho.

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No Such Thing As Gutter Ice

Podcastaflevering · No Such Thing As A Fish · 29-01-2026 · 52 min.

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@anna

English is so weird....

@cavyherd especially sad that very, very few people will ever look up "a(n)" in a dictionary, and even fewer read the entire definition of it, yet it takes months to write those entries...

@anna

There is •so much work• like that that take ages to create, years of knowledge & experience to inform, that most people just never even see....