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Lexiko was a word game invented by Alfred Mosher Butts. [1] It was a precursor of Scrabble.The name comes from the Greek lexicos, meaning "of or for words". [2]Lexiko was played with a set of 100 square cardboard tiles, with the same letter distribution later used by Scrabble (see Scrabble letter distributions), but no board.
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Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. [1] It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: . Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
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Origin In English uncleft: atom from Greek atomos 'uncut, unhewn; indivisible', from a-'not' + tomos 'a cutting', [8] uncleftish: atomic as above beholding: theory from Greek theōria 'contemplation, speculation; a looking at, viewing; a sight, show, spectacle, things looked at', from theōrein 'to consider, speculate, look at', from theōros ...
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Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).