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Sean MurthyCame across a single dictionary entry that spans nearly *four full-size pages*. 😲Whether I can TL;DR it depends on my context being listed before others. In any case, getting some coffee ready. ☕😆 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/tldr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tldr</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Sanskrit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sanskrit</a>

Petra van CronenburgLe traiteur (fr) comes from English treats. 😋 Because after a horrible and exhausting day, I stopped at the traiteur to treat myself with treats. 🍽️ 🍷 For a very lazy night.<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treat" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treat</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/treat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#treat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/alternativeEtymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alternativeEtymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fran%C3%A7aisFictif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#françaisFictif</a>

Will 🏳️‍🌈I use more than one tab in my browser for exactly two reasons: 1) When going through a playlist in YouTube, and I want to drill into the channel without taking me out of my current context. Then I right click so I can open the channel in a new tab. 2) When composing a post in Mastodon, and I want to make sure I'm spelling something correctly, or am using the correct phrasing.Relatable?<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BrowserTabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrowserTabs</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a>

Jesse SheidlowerA matched set of 3 new entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>! For "earthport", "marsport", & "moonport", (usually capitalized as the name of) spaceports in those places. 1930s–.<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3029/earthport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/3029/earthport</a> <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3030/marsport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/3030/marsport</a> <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3028/moonport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/3028/moonport</a>"moonport" substantially antedates the OED entry; in passing I also found (and of course sent in) an antedating for the (non-SFnal) sense 'a place for launching rockets to the moon'.

Solar Branka :mw:Present is the moment where 'was' and 'will be' meet.This definition of 'present' should be in the dictionary.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/present" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#present</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a>

Jesse SheidlowerNew entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>: a pair of obsolete early fandom terms, "stfan" and "stfandom".<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1383/stfan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/1383/stfan</a> <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1889/stfandom" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/1889/stfandom</a>Sorry for being slow with recent updates, but <waves hands at the world>.

Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:Still working on <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/swad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#swad</a>, and currently very busy with improving quality, most of the actual work done inside my <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/poser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poser</a> library.After finally supporting <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/kqueue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kqueue</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/epoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epoll</a>, I now integrated <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/xxhash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xxhash</a> to completely replace my previous stupid and naive hashing. I also added a more involved <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> class as an alternative to the already existing <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/hashtable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hashtable</a>. While the hashtable's size must be pre-configured and collissions are only ever resolved by storing linked lists, the new dictionary dynamically nests multiple hashtables (using different bits of a single hash value). I hope to achieve acceptable scaling while maintaining also acceptable memory overhead that way ...<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/swad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#swad</a> already uses both container classes as appropriate.Next I'll probably revisit poser's <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/threadpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#threadpool</a>. I think I could replace <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/pthread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pthread</a> condition variables by "simple" <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/semaphores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#semaphores</a>, which should also reduce overhead ... <a href="https://github.com/Zirias/swad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/Zirias/swad</a><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coding</a>

Dining & CookingThe Tradition of Wine Production in Chile <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2015226/the-tradition-of-wine-production-in-chile/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.diningandcooking.com/2015226/the-tradition-of-wine-production-in-chile/</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/britannica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britannica</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chile</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/ChileanWine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChileanWine</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/encyclopaedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#encyclopaedia</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Encyclopedia</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Online</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Reference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reference</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/store" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#store</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thesaurus</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wine</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/WineFromChile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WineFromChile</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/WineOfChile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WineOfChile</a>

Dining & CookingEconomic & Political Crises Faced by Germany’s Weimar Republic <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2009867/economic-political-crises-faced-by-germanys-weimar-republic/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.diningandcooking.com/2009867/economic-political-crises-faced-by-germanys-weimar-republic/</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/britannica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britannica</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/encyclopaedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#encyclopaedia</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Encyclopedia</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GermanWine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GermanWine</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Online</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Reference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reference</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/store" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#store</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thesaurus</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wine</a>

Jesse SheidlowerI'll be getting back to posting new entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> soon; meanwhile, for no particular reason, I've just cleaned up the entry for "disaster novel/fiction" (e.g. Ballard, Wyndham &c.), & pushed it back from 1975 to 1949<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/272/disaster" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/272/disaster</a>

Raj Kshirsagar<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@merriamwebster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@merriamwebster</a>

Dining & CookingOperation Barbarossa | Germany’s Invasion of the Soviet Union <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/1993488/operation-barbarossa-germanys-invasion-of-the-soviet-union/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.diningandcooking.com/1993488/operation-barbarossa-germanys-invasion-of-the-soviet-union/</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/britannica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britannica</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/encyclopaedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#encyclopaedia</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Encyclopedia</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GermanWine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GermanWine</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Online</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Reference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reference</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/store" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#store</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thesaurus</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wine</a>

BongolianMeghan Houser: The Subtle <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a>.com: Can you use "context" in a sentence? "There’s something pretty interesting happening on dictionary.com & its sister site, Thesaurus.com. Scroll down to the example usages of a given word and you’ll see what I mean. Among the example sentences for “democracy” at time of publication:…"<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-subtle-resistance-of-dictionarycom?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-subtle-resistance-of-dictionarycom?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email</a>

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Lazarou</a> true. The 'consultant' overseeing my 'recovery' knew less about addiction / drugs / alcohol than I did. I think he'd used <a href="https://mas.to/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> not <a href="https://mas.to/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wikipedia</a> or even a proper <a href="https://mas.to/tags/encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#encyclopedia</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medical</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a>

Soh Kam YungWords also used in Singapore, actually."Oxford Languages has announced today its latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), featuring several loanwords from Malaysia.In a statement, publisher Oxford University Press said among the newly included words is “alamak” — an exclamation expressing surprise, shock, dismay, or outrage."<a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/03/27/alamak-malaysian-loanwords-mat-rempit-tapau-and-terror-among-new-additions-to-oxford-english-dictionary/171027" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/03/27/alamak-malaysian-loanwords-mat-rempit-tapau-and-terror-among-new-additions-to-oxford-english-dictionary/171027</a><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Malaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Malaysia</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Singapore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Singapore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a>

Darrin WestAre smithers larger than smithereens? The internet dictionaries are divided on whether smithers is actually a word. The OED has examples of it from the 1800’s, yet m-w.com doesn’t list it. Odd. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a>

Alo Japan<a href="https://www.alojapan.com/1223597/the-unexpected-ways-in-which-japanese-words-make-it-into-english/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.alojapan.com/1223597/the-unexpected-ways-in-which-japanese-words-make-it-into-english/</a> The unexpected ways in which Japanese words ‘make it’ into English <a href="https://channels.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japan</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapanNews</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japanese</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapaneseNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseNews</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/nihongo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nihongo</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vocabulary</a> Have you scrolled to the end of the emoji keyboard, looking for those peskily faraway hearts, and accidentally sent a mysterious “NG”? Asked a friend in Japan if they want to go out for hibachi and been met with a blank stare? As a language shifts and evolves, it’s wont to take absurd…

Scott Prentice ✅Coincidence? I think not. You decide.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thesaurus</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a>

Jesse SheidlowerWe'll have a few new fan-related entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> this week, starting with "superfan", 1939 and onwards in genre use (earlier in baseball):<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2707/superfan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/2707/superfan</a>The first (baseball) example, from 1914, happens to be by P. G. Wodehouse.

Swede’s Photographs`Good morning. 🌿🌿🌿3 March 2025There’s an old paperback Webster's New World Dictionary sitting in the middle of my desk. My wife must have been using it yesterday because I rarely reach for a dictionary anymore—the internet does it for me. This particular edition, printed in 1990, has well-used, yellowed pages. To me, 1990 doesn’t seem that long ago, though it's been over thirty years. The dictionary's cover price is $4.50, while a new version costs over $9. I could have sworn I had two copies, but glancing around, I don't see another one. I probably purchased the dictionary in a Stars and Stripes Book Store overseas. Boring, I know - like reading a dictionary."At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. " - Elizabeth Barrett Browning<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photo</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photographer</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photographylovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photographylovers</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/morning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#morning</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vine</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bark</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionary</a>

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