Elephant Wednesday
October 15
Photo facts…
Elephant baby with his mother at the waterhole of Senyati Bush Camp at sunset, Botswana.
Elephant Video…
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The following facts came from The Fact Site.
16th October – Dictionary Day.
Dictionaries have been around for so long, just so long you guys.
The earliest evidence of a dictionary originated around 2300BC in the Akkadian Empire which is now known as Syria.
This particular Dictionary Day is in honor of Noah Webster (yes, that Webster), an American lexicographer and spelling reformer.
He’s the guy who basically threw out the English spellings and replaced almost every letter S, he came across with Z’s and removed almost all of the U’s, which he saw as superfluous to the words.
The first Webster’s Dictionary was published in 1828.
So afford your attentions towards an educational tome which many a lexicographer has made his magnum opus, be it Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, or Sebastián Covarrubias, who compiled the first monolingual dictionary (in Spanish) approximately four hundred years ago.
Have you ever wondered how a word gets into a dictionary?