#lexicography

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[allthingslinguistic]

Language is mobile and liable to change … a very large number of words have two or more pronunciations current … giving life and variety to language … it is a free country, and a man may call a vase a vawse, a vahse, a vaze, or a vase, as he pleases. And why should he not? We do not all think alike, walk alike, dress alike, write alike, or dine alike; why should we not use our liberty in speech also, so long as the purpose of speech, to be intelligible, and its grace, are not interfered with?

James Murray, aka the original guy behind the oxford english dictionary, being pretty damn tolerant for 1895

[english-lessons-bolzano]

Lexical similarities between Slavic languages

Silvio Pasqualini Bolzano inglese ripetizioni English

[savagechickens]

Slithering.

[linguisticalities]

Linguists Are Creating the First-Ever Complete Dictionary of Ancient Celtic Languages

We're living through a huge moment in linguistics history.

[celticstudies]

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

big day for dictionary fans (me)

[martinshep]

Alterhuman dictionary masterpost

This is the masterpost for my alterhuman dictionary project. There are already alterhuman dictionaries online but I found them lacking. They either had many unreliable sources, too few sources, or no methodology, that's why I decided to create my own.

It's currently quite bare, but hopefully you can help fix that!

The dictionary itself

Alterhuman Dictionary

Alterhuman Dictionary Table of contents Table of contents 1 Introduction 2 Aa 3 Bb 4 Cc 5 Dd 6 Ee 7 Ff 8 Gg 10 Hh 11 Ii 12 Kk 13 Ll 14 Mm

I want to help!

Awesome! Send me a message saying you want to help and I'll do a short interview to make sure you're one, real/not a troll, and two, have at least a little experience or interest in similar areas.

I think it needs a new word added!

If you want to add a new word there's a link just above the introduction to a form where you can add new words.

If you feel like you wouldn't know enough words to add, add the ones you do know, it helps me to know which are more common!

Here's a direct link for those who want it:

Word suggestions

Suggest words to be added to the alterhuman dictionary

I think this word needs another definition!

You can simply click on the link contained within a word to go to a form to vote on definitions, or add your own.

Please reblog for larger sample size

[firebreathonary]

Happiest of Birthdays to the Man, the Myth, the Legend - Daniel Wayne Sermon (n) [ˈdænjəl weɪn ˈsɜrmən]!

David Wayne Sermon (n) [ˈdeɪvɪd weɪn ˈsɜrmən]

Name, added: 20/06/2015 by Scott Tady [ Tw ] (Times Online) [ x ]

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GOD of the guitar (n) [gɑd ʌv ðə gɪˈtɑr]

Name, added: 09/01/2019 by shylioness [ Tu ] & PTPV [ x ]

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Orpheus (n) [ˈɔrfiəs]

Name, added: 23/10/2018 by PTPV [ x ] & Zero Music Video [ x ]

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Sir Man (n) [sɜr mən]

Name, added: 21/01/2017 by @imaginedragonsofficial & Shereen [ Tw | IG ]

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Wayne “Icarus” Sermon (n) [weɪn ikaɹʊ̆s ˈsɜrmən]

Name, added: 27/04/2016 by Daniel Platzman [ Tw | IG ] & Wayne Sermon [ Tw | IG ]

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Waynesus (n) [weɪnizəs]

Name, added: 2015, in the early days in a Firebreathers’ WhatsApp group when no track of who and when was kept

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Wing (n) [wɪŋ]

Name, added: 01/03/2020 by PTPV [ x ] (23/05/2013 by Wayne Sermon [ Tw | IG ]) 

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Full Firebreathonary