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Sep 25, 2026
Graham DonaldGUEST
which everyone, I think most would imagine, is some sort of 1950s American comicism, Zap-Powie or whatever.
Graham DonaldGUEST
But a quick jaunt to the OED shows that under the heading of Zap said a double P-E.
Graham DonaldGUEST
The first quote talking about and the castle ramparts shall be beaten or zapped.
Graham DonaldGUEST
with that last term being derived from the Italian zappare, meaning to inflict damage with explosives.
Graham DonaldGUEST
On to, next, Son of a Bitch, which, like Zap, most would imagine to be a rather unpleasant piece of 1950s, 1960s American street slang.
Graham DonaldGUEST
Not so.
Graham DonaldGUEST
Back to the OED again, which under the, it's got its own heading, presents the earliest known usage from 1330.
Graham DonaldGUEST
Wow.
JessHOST
It actually predates Dickens by over 200 years.
JessHOST
The Oxford English Dictionary traces it back to 1599 and Shakespeare even used it in the Marriott Wives of Windsor.
JessHOST
Dickens was just an old-fashioned euphemism for the devil.
JessHOST
Nothing to do with Charles at all.
Donald Gray BarnhouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There are words in our language which have several different meanings, and power is one of these.
Donald Gray BarnhouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, lists 18 major definitions of the word power and many subdivisions with shades of meaning.
Donald Gray BarnhouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Greek language has eight different words, all translated by our one English word, power.
Donald Gray BarnhouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There is the word kratos, from which we get aristocrat, autocrat, democrat, plutocrat, and which means the power to rule, the dominion of one over another, as when the Bible speaks of Satan as possessing the kratos, the power of death.
Máighréad MedbhGUEST
And this was kind of very lucky.
Máighréad MedbhGUEST
That was at the OED 6th edition 2007.
Máighréad MedbhGUEST
And then I happened to find Folklore Gaeilge Beirle from 2007 as well.
Máighréad MedbhGUEST
So I did the same with the Irish words.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
I still have to step back and just give a definition of translation.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
We call it the Joseph Smith Translation with the definition from our best English dictionary, the OED, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
In addition to a translation being an expression of different words in different languages, it also is used to express words.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
Other words or paraphrasing.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
The OED continues to say a translation can be an interpretation, an explanation, an expounding the significance.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
All three of these definitions, I think, fit in to what the Joseph Smith translation was.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
So when we ask, what was the Joseph Smith translation? I've narrowed it down to three things.
Adam CrowAUDIENCE
Cherrybrook.
Peter HarrisonHOST
What letter has the fewest entries in the Oxford English Dictionary?
Adam CrowAUDIENCE
X.
Peter HarrisonHOST
In what year did Twitter become
Erin HopkinsHOST
East Preston, North Preston, and what other community? You said Cherrybrook.
Erin HopkinsHOST
That is correct.
Erin HopkinsHOST
The letter with the fewest entries in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Erin HopkinsHOST
You said X.
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When family feuds escalate, even rhinestone-studded peace offerings can't prevent the melodrama from turning into a full-blown honky-tonk opera.
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Oxford English Dictionary adds Caribbean words, calls it progress.
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Meanwhile, the dictionary remains silent on the true meaning of progress in a world where language evolves faster than common sense.
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chaosOxford English Dictionary adds Caribbean words, calls it progress.
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Meanwhile, the dictionary remains silent on the true meaning of progress in a world where language evolves faster than common sense.
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Republican Senate nominee claims embarrassment over her own state, now seeks to represent it.
Martha Nell SmithGUEST
And so then I thought, it's not that hard to tabulate how many letters she sent to which correspondents.
Martha Nell SmithGUEST
And if you do that, she sent to Susan, if you imagine it as a row of books, she sent to Susan a number of letters and poems that's like the OED or like a big hefty Dickens or whatever.
Martha Nell SmithGUEST
And to others, like the publication to Thomas Higginson, for example, is not even half that size.
Martha Nell SmithGUEST
It's about a third that size.
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Webster's defined loss as the act or fact of losing in various senses or suffering deprivation.
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Oxford English Dictionary defined it as being deprived of or the failure to keep something.
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One can, of course, suffer a deprivation of something when another intentionally keeps that thing for himself.
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Conan alleged that she was entitled to possession of her mail, but that the postal service converted it.
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