A linguist's Goldilocks Zone - The Double-Tongued Word Wrester
|
|
Integrate business news on your website free of charge and offer your visitors up-to-date content! Click here for more information. |
Ever heard of "Goldilocks Zone" before? No. Now you can browse this and many more terms "from the Fringes of English" in a online website called The Double-Tongued Word Wrester. Oxford University lexicographer Grant Barrett started the project seven years ago to record "undocumented or under-documented old and new words from the fringes of English," wtopnews.com reports. The site tracks slang, jargon, foreignisms, loanwords, and phrases that have not yet made the "big time" -- the Oxford English Dictionary. Source: WTopNews.com Related: The Double-Tongued Word Wrester |