IAmBartacus t1_ja3g6pt wrote on February 26, 2023 at 3:48 PM Reply to comment by ReplyFriendly8071 in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged It's amazing how many words have been discovered nowadays. Like, pretty much all of the W's- heck, even into the Z's!! Permalink Parent 4
IAmBartacus t1_ja3g6pt wrote
Reply to comment by ReplyFriendly8071 in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
It's amazing how many words have been discovered nowadays. Like, pretty much all of the W's- heck, even into the Z's!!