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I have happened upon a number of interesting word-related thingies over the past week or so. As it’s been a while since I posted anything, I’ll share them with you here. New words(?) Merriam-Webster, regarded by many as the US dictionary has published its new edition, and has added some 100 new words. Naturally, some of these have a definite US bias, but many are to be found in use in international or UK English. A few examples: Continue reading Odds and Sods While looking through the latest collection of toys to add to my web site, I came across something I thought to be intrinsically useless – a program to change all the text of a page into pig latin. It was supposed to be an easy way to tell which parts of a web page would be translated by an automated translation service (Google or Babelfish for example). I don’t really see why you couldn’t just translate it into a similarly bizarre and strange language, like French, for example. Continue reading igPay atinLay |
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