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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

A writer in Brooklyn

Category: lexicography

There used to be a word for that

“Semantic Time Travel,” my essay about the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, appears in the 10 January 2010 issue of the New York Times Magazine.

Posted on 9 January 2010Author Caleb CrainCategories historical phraseology, items new in print, lexicography

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