It was absolutely the editorial example sentence that sparked my adoption.

Now the Proud Supporter of "open source" on Wordnik ✨, which frees this definition from ads for a whole calendar year.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/open%20source

#OpenSource #Wordnik #nerdery

@grammargirl @emckean I’m a big fan of #wordnik I especially enjoy comparing terms across different sources. Which brings me to the #centurydictionary… was I ever delighted to discover you can browse through it over at the #internetarchive https://archive.org/details/centurydictionary02whit/page/883/mode/1up

https://boffosocko.com/2023/07/24/vocabulary-notebooks-criminally-insane-asylum-patients-zettelkasten-the-thesaurus-linguae-latinae-and-digital-dictionaries/

These stickers are the best stickers. Fact. #wordnik https://xoxo.zone/@emckean/110335223874638809

#Introduction post:

My profession is #TechnicalEditing, my special interest is #HistoricalLinguistics. I deeply love #CompoundMorphology and #ReferenceWorks and I'm always hunting for new #CutthroatCompounds. I sing, I give talks, I do a lot of research.

I am a part of many wonderful organizations including #Wordnik, #OddSalon, #ACES, #DSNA, #ADS, and #NPL.

In 2023, I plan to read a lot of non-fiction books. #AmReading

https://boffosocko.com/2022/11/10/hypothes-is-as-a-digitial-zettelkasten-for-neologism-collection-for-wordnik/

https://boffosocko.com/2019/12/09/wordnik-is-using-hypothes_is-to-collect-citations-for-new-words-or-interesting-usages/

Does this cast you as Dr. W. C. Minor in the story, albeit not in the same sort of mad man way to wordnik’s Sir James Murray? Seriously though, this is an awesome use case.

https://boffosocko.com/2019/12/08/55761151/