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All those words!

10 Thursday Nov 2022

Posted by la Clarina in Scribbling, Things

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Historical fiction, Historical Thesaurus of English, Language, University of Glasgow

Among the many wonders of the Internet, there is the huge abundance of dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses, lexicons, and such-like beautiful things.

I’ve always loved dictionaries of all sorts, old and new, and own shelves of them, and since a young age I’ve been known to ask Saint Lucia for the occasional dictionary as a gift… Apart from the obvious use, I just love to get lost among those columns of words, to make discoveries, to go on treasure hunts, to chase the elusive nuance of a meaning… Continue reading →

Words in History

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

Posted by la Clarina in History, Things

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anachronism, English language, historical thesaurus, History, Oxford Thesaurus, University of Glasgow, writing

Do you know the Historical Thesaurus of English?

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It’s a project of the University of Glasgow, providing information on the history of nearly 800000 words. It… Continue reading →

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