Word buffs defend Canuck-written dictionary

"Word buffs defend Canuck-written dictionary"

The small team that put the Canuck into the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, along with thousands of other Canadianisms, has been sent to the pogey line.The team of four word experts has been laid off in a cost-cutting measure after sales of the old-fashioned book plummeted in the face of free online dictionaries.

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Projected Moose References

...the word moose now appears more often than ever before in major newspapers...

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Happy Birthday, Noah!

Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758 -- 250 years ago. Celebration events have been arranged by the Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society; for details see http://noahwebster250.org/250th_events.htm.

A graduate of Yale College, class of 1778, Webster is commemorated in the exhibition "Noah Webster: American Patriot and Yale Loyalist," which is displayed in Sterling Memorial Library through the end of November. For details see http://www.library.yale.edu/librarynews/2008/09/noah_webster_american_patriot.html, and also a related article by Judith Ann Schiff, "The Yalie Behind the American Dictionary," Yale Alumni Magazine, September-October 2008, 24-25, archived at http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_09/old_yale.html.