MacBain’s Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (1911 edition) RAI Dizionario d’Ortografia e di Pronunzia (includes proper names)ĭizy: Il dizionario pratico con curiosità e informazioni utiliĮlectronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiana Trésor de la langue française informatiséĬentre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Open Access PDF version of volumes A – M and O – P) TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und SprachmaterialienĪmerican Heritage Dictionary Indo-European Roots AppendixĪndras Rajki’s Etymological Dictionary of Arabicĭas Deutsche Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm GrimmĭWDS (Der deutsche Wortschatz von 1600 bis heute) TypeIt (IPA keyboards, language character sets)Ĭambridge International Dictionary of Idioms ![]() Strong Language (“a sweary blog about swearing”)Īrnold Zwicky’s list of blogs and resources The *Bʰlog (“A blog devoted to all matters Indo-European”) Ozwords (a blog from the Australian National Dictionary Centre) I have strong opinions and sometimes express myself more sharply than an ideal interlocutor might, but I try to avoid personal attacks, and I hope you will do the same. Also, my posts should be taken as conversation-starters there is no expectation of “staying on topic,”and some of the best threads have gone in entirely unexpected directions. And occasionally the software will decide a comment is spam and it won’t even go into moderation if a comment disappears on you, send me an e-mail and I’ll try to rescue it. If your comment goes into moderation (which can happen if it has too many links or if the software just takes it into its head to be suspicious), I will usually set it free reasonably quickly… unless it happens during the night, say between 10 PM and 8 AM Eastern Time (US), in which case you’ll have to wait. You will not only get your purchases, you will get my blessings and a karmic boost! ![]() (I don’t otherwise participateĪnd you can support my book habit without even spending money on me by following my Amazon links to do your shopping (if, of course, you like shopping on Amazon) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases (I get a small percentage of every dollar spent while someone is following my referral links), and every month I get a gift certificate that allows me to buy a few books (or, if someone has bought a big-ticket item, even more). If your preferred feed is Twitter, you can follow to get My name is Steve Dodson I’m a retired copyeditor currently living in western Massachusetts after many years in New York City. (Thanks, Paul!)Ĭommented-On Language Hat Posts (courtesy of J.C. So if you are aware of such a community and such a tradition, by all means share your knowledge. Arguments from logic are utterly uninteresting to me, since language is not logical the only relevant question is how the term was traditionally pronounced in the relevant speech community, before the n00bs came along and ruined everything. But there was solid logic on team “reed,” too: Just think of it like a “repair receipt,” or “pay stub,” or “mailing receipt,” none of which are in the past tense even though they indicate an activity that’s already taken place.Īpparently “the question has been floating around since at least 2010,” and having belatedly become aware of it, my curiosity has been aroused. Team “red” had a compelling case: A read receipt is a receipt that’s generated once the text message has been read. (I asked folks on Facebook and Twitter for their opinions and received similarly passionate yet inconclusive responses.) Our dialogue never reached the proportions of the Great Dark Chocolate Debate of last week, but we still never reached a consensus. ![]() This was the subject of a brief but dizzying newsroom back-and-forth on Monday among colleagues who insisted that one or the other was definitely, absolutely, without question the right way. How do you pronounce the term? Do you say it in the past-tense, so it sounds like “red”? Or in the present tense, so it sounds like “reed”? Adrienne LaFrance has a post for the Atlantic that focuses on the term “read” in “read receipts” (a phrase I had been unfamiliar with it means “the little notification that pops up for the sender of a text message once the recipient of that message has opened the text”):
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