Oxford English Dictionary – Marissa Campbell

Hoary Tales

by Marissa CampbellWellness February 17, 2016No Comments

I feel naked without my online Oxford English Dictionary, but at $19.99US a month, I had to let it go. That leaves me with relying on free internet resources when searching the etymology of words. I still use my beautiful, hoary glue-bound 1977 copy of The Living Webster for my definitions, but the OED was …

Embrangled

by Marissa CampbellAvelynn, E May 22, 2015No Comments

The Latest Word is: Embrangle: To entangle, confuse, perplex. The Oxford English Dictionary has embrangle coming into common usage in the 1600s but its etymology dates back to the early 1500s with brangle, which, I’ve decided, is a cool word all on its own and may have to write a post on it, too—when we …