If someone explains something in a way that makes it sound much more complex than it actually is, how would you describe that?

is Florida real?

I recently proposed to my girlfriend of 4 years and she said yes! Now we don’t plan on getting married for a few years but we’ve been discussing our wedding in passing. I’ve recently realized that my best friend who I want standing next to me at the altar is nonbinary and the term “best man” isn’t entirely accurate. Is there a genderless term for best man?

I'm currently writing one of my final assignments, part of it is explaining how the colon dash (:—), also known as dog's bollocks, is used. As far as I've searched, it was used to denote a pause, and there's an entry about it in the 1949's edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sadly, all my sources are Wikipedia, blogs or forums and I need a more reliable source for my assignment. I was able to look up only part of it without an OED subscription (neither my university nor library have it; I live in Mexico), but not the information I required. I would be very grateful if users with access to the dictionary would send me the entry about dog's bollocks in the 1949's edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

I know it may be too much to ask, but I’ll be extremely grateful for any of your answers. Thanks!

is there any dictionary or dictionary and thesaurus(even better) learners book with literal,non phonetic or IPA pronunciation guide. similar to google if you type whats the pronounciation of a certain words. like this >> "contemperary" - pronounced as: kuhn·tem·pr·eh·ree. i swear i have a dictionary book like this when i was a child. but im not sure if its childrens dictionary or general. Thanks

Just a general question

Please and have a good day to whoever reads this

I saw someone recently, 100% confident, unabashedly say that the word "picnic" derived from "pick a N****!" and mid to late 19th century (likely unknowingly implied) lynchings.

For years, after inferring the deterioration on online dictionaries, (or rather, initially a shadow push for search engine owned sources), I noticed how most online dictionaries had become simple, quasi-second language dictionaries.

These dictionaries, like google's initial suggested answer, proved, multiple times, to be unreliable.

So, I began to rely upon m-w, in addition to collecting older, hard-copy dictionaries.

In general, I've mostly noticed confluence between oxford online; (though generally this has a bit more meat than others); tangible, older dictionaries; and m-w.com.

I felt floored, seeing the comparison of the current rhetorical de-jure word-twist (introduced above) with that of M-W, which, still mentions (glibly) Scottish and French background. Yet, M-W, and even the online Oxford dictionary omits the history going back to 1692.

The manner in which M-W currently presents the words gives credence to such spurious claims, with which I led this post.

The online Oxford dictionary modifies their 1966 etymological dictionary to just say "mid 1700's".

What exactly is going on here?

Has something new been discovered, which invalidates previous scholars who read and found examples of use in past text.

I'm reminded of a recent online conversation, in which I engaged, which laid claim to "it sucks" going back (based upon anecdotal claims) to "sucks D***", which school children used as a regular vernacular at the end of the 1960's.

(A deeper search found magazine usage of such a phrase going back to 1962; and some indicated, as such, that it is actually related to egg sucking or hind teet sucking (from former, related terminology).

I understand general indifference in regard to a subject as this; but I am confused by the dictionaries, themselves, modifying and omitting previous, sound information.

Has anyone else (logophile or otherwise) noticed stuff like this happening?

I'd submit a pictures but this forum doesn't seem to allow that.

Immolate - to completely destroy by means of fire hot enough to reduce anything affected to a molten state of matter.

Dictionaries that focuses on words of 8 parts of speech like pronouns-verbs-adjectives in its entirety/extensively.

I'm trying to explain to my girlfriend she doesn't have to buy me stuff for my birthday because I hate it when people spend money on me, I know she's trying to be sweet but I feel really guilty like I'm a waste of money.

Hi everyone, I hope this is the right subreddit for this question. I am taking a Classics class at University on Greek and Latin in the English language. A lot of our homework relates to understanding how to use a dictionary to find answers. For example, finding the meaning of the word based on the roots it is comprised of, finding the original language, etc. I have the online version of the OED (I paid for it) and I'm really confused on how to find the two things that I listed above and also the modern meaning of the word. Any advice would be appreciated!

I have always had an interest in certain jobs where there is a broad territory or physical area that you have to look after in some way. It frequently or regularly requires travel to random parts of that territory to examine certain physical aspects of it, or to make certain physical improvements.

Some examples might include:

1. Police officer/EMS/firefighter
2. Conservation worker/park ranger
3. Farmer
4. Surveyor
5. Many government positions that requires frequent travel around jurisdiction
6. Soldier in a war zone
7. Certain positions in engineering or construction
8. Chemical/power plant/factory operator
9. Building superintendent/Facilities staff/manager etc.
10. Landlord/employee of landlord

Is there a generally accepted name for this broad category of jobs?

What does the word "Cum" mean?

I swear i remember seeing it or hearing so many times but i cant find any proof of its existence. Pronounced stah-teh-ma And meaning a complex technological system

What is a word that means a group of people or a singular person who is universally praised or worshipped but is actually an evil person(s)

Hi, I made my own conlang into a dictionary and I thought this might be the best place to start.

I’m looking for feedback on my grammar and if the formatting of my dictionary section is good. I just hope it’s easy to comprehend and understand. Any feedback is appreciated.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xgeolT2LPWvNHmDHsXd6gqQh6uPTJjqYMGHZP-N78h4/edit?usp=sharing

Hello, I read handmaid's tale recently and there is a theme present in many dystopian novels where a member of the oppressed group will betray the interest of their own group after being given positional authority over them. But i cant seem to find the word for it!

Hi all! I have totally forgotten this word and it is driving me crazy. Pretty much the word describes a fallacy where we apply a modern term for something (often an event) retroactively to something in the past, but the word we're using didn't exist yet. For example, if we are writing from the perspective of someone in World War I, it would be an example of "____" to have that person say "WWI", since that term didn't exist until later.

I hope that was clear enough! and Thank you!

Hi! So, I'm Brazilian and I was gaming online with sum ppl from another country, at the end of the play, a girl said "TORI (my name) SALLL", idk what it means tho, can someone help me with that?

So for example based on the OED you could draw up some rules to guide you (cos otherwise infinity x gibberish, obviously) then populate a list of sequenced letters that are not words but could be, as well as a list of sequenced letters that are not words that are graded based on how likely they ever are to be one?

This might include odd double letters for English, or words like girafferous (which I think is a great word, came up with it yesterday after finding myself saying tigerous, which itself is rare yet I don't really understand why)

Furthermore I wonder if there is a rule for using nouns this way or some kind of guide for that as you couldn't get away with adding "-rous" to every word right?

Just a random curiosity I thought I'd throw about today =)

Looking for what it’s called if there’s a word for it when someone shifts their weight onto one foot and moves their other foot around with a pointed toe in big or exaggerated circles on the ground or the floor to be like cute or bashful

Not sure where else to put this but I was wondering if anyone else noticed this.

I was on r/religion yapping about history when I usually do when I tried to say "...through a Christian lense..." and "...through a Judaic lense...". Both times "lense" got the red squiggly and google corrected it to "lens".

Now this confused me a little because I always thought "lense" and "lens" were two seperate words, with "lens" referring to a physical piece of optics (like the lens of a telescope) while "lense" referred to a synonym for perspective.

I looked it up an apparently they mean the exact same thing, with "lense" being an unofficial (but widely accepted) spelling.

I don't know what the point of posting this was, but I wonder if this is a cultural thing. I can't think of where I learned to write "lense", as I happen to be the only person I know who uses that word on a common basis. Thoughts?

What is the difference between beautiful/handsome and physically attractive? I feel like there would be a difference but google makes it seem like the same thing, is there a difference?

It’s describing a way of thinking that encompasses lots of information pulled together to come to a single understanding. Sort of abstract?

My apologies if this makes no sense. I haven’t through about it in years and it’s on the tip of my tongue.

Brainstorm? Whatcha got?

that when the Miami police arrested Miami Doplhins WR Tyreek Hill today at the stadium entrance the he got Schefflered?

Miami officer has already been put on leave. Officer in the story below was recently arrested.

reference: https://new.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/1cu4v66/world_no_1_golfer_scottie_scheffler_arrested_at/

I'm having trouble understanding a predicament I've run into regarding Stare and the word Store. I've seen the word Stare many times and then the word Store as like a version of past tense to the word. But when I look up on Google to see it's that's an actual way to use Store I'm met with either the Italian language or just versions of the word Stare but not Store.

So my main question is, is the word Store correct to use as an past tense version of the word Stare? I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere. Not even in the Websters Dictionary. Please help me you guys. T0T

Have I completely misread something or is the word "Asia" not in the OED? It appears to go from "ashy" to "Asian". I ask because I was trying to research the etymology of Asia in reference to the continent.