ReplyFriendly8071 t1_ja278if wrote on February 26, 2023 at 7:52 AM Reply to 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 funny that this used to be a job a person could have. These days all the words are already in the dictionary, even the ones towards the end of the alphabet. Permalink 28
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Reply to 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 funny that this used to be a job a person could have. These days all the words are already in the dictionary, even the ones towards the end of the alphabet.