Monday, June 04, 2012

For the Dictionary that has everything.

This is certainly an interesting entry in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (New York 1911), bearing the subtitle "a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge."


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6 comments:

  1. Lawrence Kaplan9:31 PM, June 04, 2012

    Fascinating. How in world did you find this?

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  2. Phil9:45 PM, June 04, 2012

    And I thought http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tohubohu was interesting.

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  3. Phil10:26 PM, June 04, 2012

    Totally off topic, but I wanted to share this before I forgot:
    http://www.wimp.com/codexarchimedes/
    In this "Ted" talk, the speaker talks about an ancient manuscript of Archimedes, and how it was saved and deciphered.
    I think you'll find it fascinating.

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  4. S.11:22 PM, June 04, 2012

    Dr. Kaplan : serendipity.

    Phil, thanks for the listening recommendation!

    My favorite wild dictionary word has to be "taghmical," which made it to the OED on the strength of one 1698 book called "The Taghmical Art ; or, the Art of Expounding Scripture by the points usually called Accents, but are really Tactical." The author invented the English word "Taghmical," built out of the Hebrew word for the accents, טעמים.

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  5. Anonymous9:11 AM, June 05, 2012

    That one had to have come from the madman.

    DF

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  6. Abul Bannat10:12 AM, June 05, 2012

    Who knew? I thought it was a hyena. :-)

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