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The Oxford English Dictionary has revealed 1,840 newly revised and updated words in its online edition.
In all, the famous dictionary has added 98,000 revised and new entries since building an online edition in March 2000. The update added entries for everything from crystal methamphetamine to network neutrality.
Here are a few of our favorites from the list: “auto-complete n. A software feature that uses text already entered in a given field to predict or generate the characters the user is likely to enter next; familiar to anyone who has used predictive text or search boxes on websites. [First recorded in 1992]”
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What is Net Neutrality (and does learning about it put you to sleep)? This is a photo of seat-fillers at an FCC hearing. They were paid by Comcast so that the public couldn't get in.
If we don't want to live in a bubble like Truman Burbank or my kids (or the Alabama viewers of 60 Minutes?) I guess we should do something about this.
Kate OUP-US
Before the iPod, the discman, or even the walkman there was the LP, the “Long Playing Disc”. On this day in 1948 Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS unvelied the LP, and by doing so, revolutionized the music industry. Below is an excerpt from the American National Biography Online, by Charles W. Carey, Jr., about Dr. Goldmark.
Goldmark, Peter Carl (2 Dec. 1906-7 Dec. 1977), inventor, was born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Alexander Goldmark, a hatmaker, and Emmy (maiden name unknown). (more…)
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Julie, thanks for posting this photo!
I know about the hearings, etc.. but have not heard about this until now.
Some how it just does not surprise me.