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Why does the online OED show precipitous declines in new word entries in the 20th and 21st centuries?
Using a simple trick, the online OED provides counts of new word entries from its earliest recorded years (1400 CE) to the present.
New Word Entries are defined to be the year a word first appeared in ...
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Order of definitions in dictionaries
Are dictionary definitions for words with multiple meanings ordered based on chronology, hierarchy, or frequency of usage? Is/was there a standard format?
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Percentages of meanings in an English dictionary
Often when you look for some new word in a dictionary, you will find many definitions or meanings of the one word.
For example when you look for a word to in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary you ...
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