Who Says a Dictionary Has To Be Dry?
10/1/2016
Readers are invited to discover that the dictionary is not as dry and dusty as they might think by clicking on the link to watch a video at a dictionary website which shows how relevant to the modern world the study of words and their usage can be.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/2015-word-of-the-year-behind-the-scenes Here we find mention of politics, terrorist attacks, social trends, gender relations, and media phenomena, and what word usage study can tell us about these things. |