[Ads-l] Dictionaries are trending

Baron, Dennis E debaron at ILLINOIS.EDU
Sat Apr 22 22:50:53 UTC 2017


Let’s try this again using different text, typing directly into the email instead of cutting and pasting from html text or a word docx:

There’s a new post on the Web of Language:

Dictionaries are trending.

When people don’t understand something in the news, they no longer wait for the Sunday talk shows to tell them what it means, or the next issue of Time, or even the Daily Show. With just a click, they look it up in the dictionary.

Read the full post at bit.ly/2q2p3na

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org


More information about the Ads-l mailing list