February 7, 2011
Reference
A necessary replacement for your conventional dictionary
Wordnik's co-founder, Erin McKean, explains (about words) that, "Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction". She wants us to understand that the number of words in the English language and the number of meanings associated with each word is simply too big for a book.
The solution? Wordnik. The next step in word access. It shows you words and examples of how they are used in context. At this writing it includes 6,475,698 unique words and 889,159,815 example sentences.
An example of a definition: "design"..
An example of a list created by a user: one word exclamations...yikes!
Erin McKean, "lexicographer to the stars," explains the idea behind Worknik...
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