The Oxford English Dictionary

"I use dictionaries as a reference to life. I see the dictionary as a kind of poem about everything - it's every story waiting to be told....Through language we make ourselves up. And if it's a reflection of us, it's also the means through which we become ourselves and share ourselves. So I suppose this massive dictionary is a sculpture of us somehow."

Fiona Banner, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2008

TODAY'S WORD

Pingle (PING-ul) - to nibble or pick at food; eat with little appetite.

How I could have used this word when my children were little. "Stop pingling!"

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