"Language is fossil poetry" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Oxford English Dictionary traces the evolution of more
than 600,000 words, over the last 1,500 years. The OED is a
historical dictionary: it illustrates how a word is used, when it
first entered the language, and how the meaning of it has
changed over time by quoting from source material – from film
scripts to wills, classic literature to blogs. It is absolutely unique.
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