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...result is a community of editors that’s sharply divided. The New York Times insists on “health care.” Reuters, on the other hand, is an unapologetic convert to “healthcare.” The Oxford English Dictionary??notoriously slow to respond to common usage—lists it as two words. Dictionary.com—with its modern, online perspective—says one. (A search through The Crimson’s archive reveals both...
...family because of his family’s loyalty to the Tiger cause.The reader comes to love Yalini, with her appreciation for the sacrifices her parents have made for her, her pure childhood passion for books (“Sometimes I sat for hours, poring over the medical dictionary??), and her relentless research into her family’s history through conversations with relatives, especially her father and her uncle. During her genealogical exploration, Yalini comes to realize that she is the product of her ancestors, most resembling an aunt named Uma who was brilliant but suffered from...
...globalization of English is, it seems, unstoppable. In response, political institutions around the world are attempting to halt English’s spread. The Real Academia Española (RAE)—the Spanish institution that publishes the “official” Spanish dictionary??refuses to recognize words that “rupture the linguistic system in its totality” or “endanger the language’s unity ,” i.e. American-isms. In 2002, Japan appointed a “Council on Japanese Language” to advise...
Words like “sibling” and “cousin” will become “purely dictionary?? terms because “single children will marry other single children,” he said...
...courtrooms since 1980, and from what I can see, TV cameras do not cause any problems,” Zobel says. Just as Zobel has made his mark in the Middlesex courthouse, in the Boston legal community and in the national media, he has crept into the dictionary??s legal definitions...
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