Love this. Can it really be true that Shakespeare invented the word “road”? What did the Romans call them?
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Love this. Can it really be true that Shakespeare invented the word “road”? What did the Romans call them?
The folks over at the Oxford English Dictionary published their latest updates to the OED today, revising and adding to a language which already contains more than 600,000 recorded words. Among the new inductees are some real corkers. Several modern day initialisms – abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of a name or expression – such as OMG (oh my God), LOL (laughing out loud), FYI (for your information), TMI (too much information), IM … Read More
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