My family didn't get this at all when I enthusiastically shared how I now had access to the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the definitive guide to the largest language in the known universe, one of the great achievements of the librarian instinct that lurks inside human beings, and it hides behind a paywall. But I found I can access it for free by using my library card -- our local library subscribes to it.
So now when I want to look up:
hi-hat
or
scrip
as I needed to two days ago or discover whether the word 'luck' is derived from the word 'Lucifer,' I can. (It isn't).
It's like getting the keys to the linguistic universe. What a resource. What a discovery. So why do my family look at me so strangely?
Thursday, July 01, 2010
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