Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Roald Dahl and the OED

This week at Copyediting.com, I wrote about the recent update announcement from the Oxford English Dictionary and its honoring of Roald Dahl's linguistic legacy on his hundredth birthday.

The OED Honors Roald Dahl

https://www.copyediting.com/the-oed-honors-roald-dahl/
Last week, the Oxford English Dictionary honored children's
author Roald Dahl in its quarterly update.
I'm rather excited to see scrumdiddlyumptious appear in a dictionary, though I assume it will be some time before Word's spell-checker will recognize it. Guess I'll have to add it myself, because I plan on using it often.