[Ads-l] Lexico -> Rock Holdings

[Barretts Mail]

Today I received an email asking for me to verify my email address from Dictionary.com. I certainly didn’t send them my email address. BB

> On 29 Aug 2022, at 08:11, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> That 2018 release reads like a parody--"the nation’s preeminent online
> erudition resource" indeed.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 11:06 AM Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
> 
>> I do not have any more information about the Lexico acquisition, but a
>> deliberately obfuscatory 2018 press release about Rock Holdings’
>> acquisition of Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com is at
>> https://pressroom.rocketmortgage.com/2018/11/15/detroit-based-rock-holdings-acquires-dictionary-com-and-thesaurus-com/
>> .
>> 
>> 
>> John Baker
>> 
>> 
>> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
>> Barretts Mail
>> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2022 11:31 AM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Lexico -> Rock Holdings
>> 
>> External Email - Think Before You Click
>> 
>> 
>> The Lexico website now goes to dictionary.com, which doesn’t mention (
>> https://www.dictionary.com/e/about/<https://www.dictionary.com/e/about> <
>> https://www.dictionary.com/e/about/<https://www.dictionary.com/e/about/>>)
>> the transition but does say it’s owned by Rock Holdings, Inc.
>> 
>> According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico<
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico> <s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico
>> <s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico>>), this has occurred as of two days
>> ago:
>> 
>> ###
>> On 26 August 2022, Lexico was closed and redirected to Dictionary.com.[16]
>> Oxford Dictionaries Premium was still available.[17]
>> ###
>> 
>> Rock Holdings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage<
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage> <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage<
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage>>) holds Quicken Loans and
>> Rocket Mortgage and acquired Lexico from IAC, another holding company.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any more detailed information?
>> 

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