Peter Rabbit was a huge success and readers loved hearing about Peter's mischevious adventures in the lush English countryside. As she got older, Beatrix Potter became a proud conservationist, working hard to defend the landscape she loved so well against industrialization and logging. Now over ...
The Oxford English dictionary defines wellness as “well-being, prosperity; the state or condition of being healthy or well; (also) spiritual well-being.” These days, you’ll find the term plastered everywhere you look – used to promote everything from organic vegetables to cosmetic products....
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If any of these bring a groan or three, the folks at Oxford University Press might say we have only ourselves to blame. As Oxford’s head of online dictionaries told TIME, “The dictionary reflects the way the language has changed over the last few years […] We run the big...
The Oxford English Dictionary says Byte magazine used it first,in its May 1976 issue.But Yale Law School librarian Fred Shapiro decided to do some digging on his own--with help from JSTOR,an online electronic database for academic (学术的) journals.JSTOR's arts and sciences archive (档案) ...
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: conspiracy: The action or an act of conspiring; (a) combination of people for an unlawful or a reprehensible purpose; an agreement so to combine, a plot. Quæ mala sunt inchoata in principio vix bono peragantur exitu : (4 Co. 2.)—Things bad ...
In ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’, not all may be as it seems and, accordingly, scholars on the whole have reached the conclusion that it’s not meant to mean much at all; that it’s just incoherent, humorous nonsense. ‘Diddle’ is defined, in Oxford Dictionary, as either the act of getting...
The word ‘Brexit’ was coined by EURACTIV, according to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, way back in 2012, in a blog post by Peter Wilding.
One of the greatest contributions to the first Oxford English Dictionary was also one of its most unusual. In 1879, Oxford University in England asked Prof. James Murray to serve as editor for what was to be the most ambitious dictionary in the history of the English language. It would incl...
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states that Rutherford “was the descendant of a Baptist family of Morgan County, Missouri. Though he had never studied, he was given an attorney’s license in 1892. He frequently defended Charles Taze Russell in the courts and became a resourceful...