Humor

No Taxation Without Taxonomy

By |May 8th, 2017|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on No Taxation Without Taxonomy

It isn’t every day that the word “taxonomy” is used in a protest. However, thousands of scientists worldwide took to the streets to rail against […]

The Dystopian Genre

By |April 10th, 2017|Access Insights, Featured, reference|Comments Off on The Dystopian Genre

Presidential elections signal many changes ahead for a country but no one really knows what those changes may lead to. This can instill many […]

Don’t Get Tricked

By |April 3rd, 2017|Access Insights, Featured, reference|Comments Off on Don’t Get Tricked

This weekend we celebrated a day of pranks, jokes, and trickery. Some people go to outlandish and extravagant efforts to pull pranks on others, […]

Semantics Plays a Role

By |March 30th, 2017|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantics Plays a Role

In my family, there are several names beginning with “M” and it is inevitable when my mother calls for one, she usually goes through […]

New Trending Words Added to Oxford

By |March 16th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on New Trending Words Added to Oxford

Three hundred words were recently added to OxfordDictionaries.com, which monitors current trends in the use of modern English. There appeared to be some trends […]

An Elite Group

By |March 9th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on An Elite Group

The term “Copy editors” conjures up images of wire-framed bespectacled people hunched over their desks furiously scratching and swiping with their pencils (always pencils, never […]

Geeks by Another Name

By |March 8th, 2017|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Geeks by Another Name

The term geek has no gender specific connotations. Gender also has zero impact on the ways in which women interact with geek culture. However, geek culture […]

Dictionaries in the World of Social Media

By |February 10th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Dictionaries in the World of Social Media

The days of encyclopedias may have been ended by Google and other search engines, but dictionaries are standing the test of time. This interesting […]

Smarter Machines

By |January 13th, 2017|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Smarter Machines

I know, with a title like that the inner sci-fi geek in you just went, “whaaat?” Granted, artificial intelligence (AI) devices may be best known […]

Standards Across Subjects

By |January 12th, 2017|News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards Across Subjects

Vocabulary standards are important, this we know. This is true regardless of the subject matter – be it medical coding or liquor. This interesting topic […]