O is for the Oxford English Dictionary (oh, and Otters)
is for the Oxford English Dictionary. And the owl in the drop cap? Why, that's a distant allusion to my favourite Tolkien-related word in the OED: wariangle.
Here's the link to Tolkien's entries: @OEDonline: "Tolkien worked on OED entries for several 'W' words, including waggle, waistcoat, walloping, walnut, and walrus."
You can look up other authors and their words too, such as Agatha Christie: @OEDonline: "Appointment with Words: where does Agatha Christie feature in the OED? (via @OxfordWords)."
You can also browse the historical thesaurus to find synonyms over time.
And there's also this: @NOVALanguages: "World's largest natural sound archive now fully digital and fully online."
Hey, wait. I have no images for this letter!
Okay, I did a search for cute otters - did you know there's actually a CuteOtter.com?!
One of the first things that came up was a video from Chicago (I was there last month)! Here's an otter pup at Shedd Aquarium:
I've also been forgetting to check in to ROW80; which is slightly on purpose, as I've had lots of overtime at work and have also been busy knitting and hosting a booth at an artisans' fair, and getting lost in all the fun and exciting A to Z posts! I'm only editing on weekends now, and moving slowly at that. There are so many niggling bits in Druid's Moon left to fix!
How is your non-A to Z life going?
Here's the link to Tolkien's entries: @OEDonline: "Tolkien worked on OED entries for several 'W' words, including waggle, waistcoat, walloping, walnut, and walrus."
You can look up other authors and their words too, such as Agatha Christie: @OEDonline: "Appointment with Words: where does Agatha Christie feature in the OED? (via @OxfordWords)."
You can also browse the historical thesaurus to find synonyms over time.
And there's also this: @NOVALanguages: "World's largest natural sound archive now fully digital and fully online."
Hey, wait. I have no images for this letter!
Okay, I did a search for cute otters - did you know there's actually a CuteOtter.com?!
One of the first things that came up was a video from Chicago (I was there last month)! Here's an otter pup at Shedd Aquarium:
I've also been forgetting to check in to ROW80; which is slightly on purpose, as I've had lots of overtime at work and have also been busy knitting and hosting a booth at an artisans' fair, and getting lost in all the fun and exciting A to Z posts! I'm only editing on weekends now, and moving slowly at that. There are so many niggling bits in Druid's Moon left to fix!
How is your non-A to Z life going?
Comments
And I never knew famous authors featured in the OED! That's really kind of cool. I want to write a word definition for the OED when I'm all grown up and authorly.
I loved this information about the OED- it was new to me!
~Jess
Aww, in regards to the otter.
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I love otters. I used to want a pet otter, and finally, a few years ago, found myself a little stuffed otter at Hallmark's.
I didn't know that about authors and the OED.
Thanks for fun post:)
You may not be getting all sorts of ROW80 "stuff" done, but you are still making slow progress, and clearly you're having fun and doing lots of other cool things along with your writing journey (as well as feeding your fellow internet people a healthy diet of neat AtoZ. Thanks!
I really liked your post, a mix of play with words, commitment to writing, and sheer enjoyment (those cute otters). May your week go well. (I'm in the A-Z Challenge as well.)
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The Owl in the drop cap .. is a delight to see - illustrations oh how I'd love to be able to do them ..
I guess Wariangle .. came from Tokien's time working on the Ws ..
Cheers Hilary
Beth, that sounds like a great evening to me - love reading the dictionary!