Andy Hollandbeck<p>Happy Dictionary Day! </p><p>Celebrate by learning and using a new word!</p><p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a></p>
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Cute Calendar<p>Oct 16: Today is Dictionary Day! <a href="https://www.cute-calendar.com/43385" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">cute-calendar.com/43385</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a></p>
Bayan Mo, iPatrol Mo<p>Pamilyar na ba kayo sa mga bagong salitang ito? 🤔</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BMPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BMPM</span></a></p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 October 16th is <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a>: Let's talk like an Egyptian! Did you know "adobe" & "ebony" are Egyptian words? And the name "Susan" means "waterlily lotus"? This dictionary shows how Egyptians spoke in Roman days when <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> and <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Hadrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hadrian</span></a> visited Egypt: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/10/dictionary-of-how-egyptians-spoke-when.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">1/10/dictionary-of-how-egyptians-spoke-when.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
Andy Hollandbeck<p>Happy <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a> everyone! It's a great day finger through a dictionary and learn something new!</p>
ANDictionary<p>For all the dictionary-makers – and their forever unfinished yet deeply meaningful job: Happy Dictionary Day!<br>[Illustration: Marie de France writing, Paris, BnF, Français, 2173, f.93]<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AngloNorman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AngloNorman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a></p>
Bayan Mo, iPatrol Mo<p>NGL, MID LANG ANG ALAM KONG GEN Z SLANGS NGAYON 🤔</p><p>Alam mo ba ang meaning ng new words na ito? Kabilang ang mga ito sa dinagdag na 690 words sa Merriam-Webster Dictionary noong Setyembre 2023.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BMPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BMPM</span></a></p>
Julie Howlin<p>Among the many people who wrote definitions for the OED are JRR Tolkien who went on to write Lord of the Rings, and William Chester Minor, a former army surgeon who was being held in Broadmoor after killing a man. Tolkien was responsible for defining words beginning with W.</p><p>10 things you might not know about dictionaries:</p><p><a href="https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/10/16-october-dictionary-day.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/</span><span class="invisible">10/16-october-dictionary-day.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionaries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facts</span></a></p>
Grammar Girl<p>On this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DictionaryDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a>, thank you to all the lexicographers who make my work possible and fascinating. </p><p>I ❤️ dictionaries.</p>
Grammar Girl<p>How New Words Get Added to the Scrabble Dictionaries (Yes, Dictionaries, Plural) <a href="https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-new-words-get-added-to-the-scrabble-dictionaries-yes-dictionaries-plural" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quickanddirtytips.com/educatio</span><span class="invisible">n/grammar/how-new-words-get-added-to-the-scrabble-dictionaries-yes-dictionaries-plural</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictionaryday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryDay</span></a></p>
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