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This AI Dictionary Makes Up Words and Their Definitions

Author and software engineer Thomas Dimson has created an AI dictionary that generates fake words and definitions. The project, like many similar ones released online recently, uses sophisticated AI ...
The Independent

Oxford English Dictionary changes definition of ‘woman’ after complaints that it was ‘sexist’

The Oxford English Dictionary has updated its definition of the word “woman” in its latest gender review, after complaints it was “sexist”. In the latest edition of the world-famous dictionary it has ...
CNN

Cambridge Dictionary’s definitions for ‘man’ and ‘woman’ now include trans people

The Cambridge Dictionary recently updated its entries for “man” and “woman” to include transgender people – the latest dictionary to broaden its lexicon to reflect evolving language around gender. A ...
The Washington Post

Cambridge Dictionary updates definition of ‘woman’ to include trans women

The Cambridge Dictionary recently updated its definitions for “woman” and “man” to include transgender people, becoming the latest dictionary to formally expand what it means to be a woman. A ...
Hyperallergic

Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...