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POPSIf you love a word, use it. That makes it real. "A crowdsourced toolkit for tracking and recording the evolution of language as it occurs, its goal is to gather as much information about a word as possible — not its mere definition, but also in-sentence examples, semantic “neighborhoods” of related words, images, statistics about usage, and more. And it’s all compiled via user submissions".
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POPSNew Online Dictionary Redefines ‘look it up’
Lexicographer Erin McKean’s interactive ‘Wordnik’ is projected to be the largest online dictionary ever. This week she is slated to launch what may be the biggest revolution in the printed word since, well, printed words. McKean was 8 years old when she decided that when she grew up, she wanted to be a lexicographer – the technical term for a writer or editor of dictionaries. She first found it in her daily scouring of The Wall Street Journal. Her father was a Journal devotee “I think I was really attracted by the fact that it was taking 21 years to make the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary,” she recalls. “I was 8. Twenty-one years was forever.” The lexicography bug stuck, in part because McKean loved language. She was a voracious reader, plowing through her local libraries’ stacks and devouring anything she found at home, she says. “If it was lying around, I read it. If my parents didn’t want me to read it,” she says, “they had to hide it."
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POPSSupport Project Erin! Downloading one file everyday may help save a life...
I'm Rebekah, and this is my first clip here. :D Well, I figured I should pimp this part out of the Project Erin Site. Erin is a 29 year old living in the US who suffers from two painful Neurological disorders- (Chiari malformation and cranial lesions). She is not begging for donations, all she asks is that you download one 3 kb text document a day to support her (virus/spyware/malware free)! If she gets 5 million downloads on the file, she will get $10,000 enough to cover some of her medical expenses. Just go to the her site, give it a looking over. I've personally downloaded the file- it simply states everything on the front page of the website. Please just give it a consideration, yeah? It doesn't hurt you at all to do it, just 10 seconds or so to download the file. Easy as pie! If you're feeling generous, her site offers where to donate. http://community.livejournal.com/projectdownload/318.html www.projecterin.com (I just want to send some hits and luck her way
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