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The' messenger RNA vaccine' was new to me, I had never heard of it, and unless you were a research scientist, you probably haven't, therefore, Oxford English Dictionary didn't even cover a definition.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a word that has kind of two parallel but intersecting stories : one is a medical story, and one is a political story or a cultural story.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The ability of those spellers was simply greater in aggregate than we prepared for, they were structurally prepared for kind of a duel between two spellers. What they recognized was they didnt have enough words of that very high level, of the most difficult level. ... They were all difficult words, but not the most difficult words. They had already gone through them.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The girl quoting the definitions before (pronouncer Jacques) Bailly said them stated the usage note from our unabridged dictionary verbatim. ... Its a very specific kind of writing that we do. I thought, Oh my goodness, this 13-year-old girl is quoting our dictionary back to us, these spellers as a group simply were unusually gifted. They may indicate that we have entered a new era of competition.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Its why there are spelling bees in English and no other language.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
For a living language, the only constant is change, official Scrabble Players Dictionary evolves to keep up with English as Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is used today.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The word feminism was being use in a kind of general way, the feminism of this big protest, but it was also used in a kind of specific way: What does it mean to be a feminist in 2017? Those kinds of questions are the kinds of things, I think, that send people to the dictionary.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It was a very new word at that time, his definition is not the definition that you and I would understand today. His definition was, ‘The qualities of females,’ so basically feminism to Noah Webster meant femaleness. We do see evidence that the word was used in the 19th century in a medical sense, for the physical characteristics of a developing teenager, before it was used as a political term, if you will.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We had no idea he was the original dictionary source of feminism. We don’t have a lot of evidence of what he was looking at.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We're simply using the word culture more frequently, it may be a fad. It may not. It may simply be evolution.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
The word culture's got a cultural story. We have noticed for years that culture has a cyclical spike every year at around Labor Day. That is to say back to school time during the month of September, so we've been watching this word spike at that time for years, in recent years we've seen similar spikes at the end of semesters during finals.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
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