/lit/ - Literature

>This year marks the 90th birthday of the OED; that is, 90 years since the completion of the first edition of the dictionary.

>>9937577
>>9937579
>>9937587
Jekyll and Hyde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wuthering Heights
The Chimes
Hard Times
A Study in Scarlet
Hard Times
Vanity Fair

This is going to be a hell of a quarter, but I'm excited for it.

>>9937577
I already emailed her, but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. That's why I bothered to make this thread. I'm already on top of the whole "befriend your professor" deal, so don't worry about it.

>>9743280
towards
entity
accord
wherein
thereafter
pavonine
amongst

I like words that are accessible yet a tad obscure.

>>9670729
When I was in elementary, and in the early years of middle school, I would use the dictionaries that the Rotary Club would hand out to schools for free. Whenever I came across a word that I didn't know, I'd look for it in said dictionary.

Nowadays, whenever I start a new book, I'd take a couple of sticky notes and affix them onto the inside of the cover and write down whatever vocabulary that I don't know; after a reading session, I'll then take to the internet and look them up.

I know it's far better to use a physical dictionary, but the internet is just too convenient.

>>8539760

pref·er·ence
ˈpref(ə)rəns
noun
plural noun: preferences
1.
a greater liking for one alternative over another or others.
"a preference for long walks and tennis over jogging"

synonyms: liking, partiality, predilection, proclivity, fondness, taste, inclination, leaning, bias, bent, penchant, predisposition

The OED is probably the pinnacle of this form. Way beyond being any one person's "labor of love", although several throughout its history have certainly made their contributions to it in that spirit.

I think the existence of the OED makes Modern English a unique landmark in the history of literature. Imagine if there were and equivalent contemporary work for ancient Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit. Imagine how, if it survives, it will color and inform the understanding of scholars of our period a thousand years in the future.