{"id":290,"date":"2010-08-19T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T22:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/08\/19\/one_for_the_word_lovers\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:09:15","slug":"one_for_the_word_lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/08\/19\/one_for_the_word_lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"One for the word lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\">Wordnik<\/a> is a word-lover&#8217;s delight.  Its aim is:<br \/>\n.bq <em>to show you as much information as possible, as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known. Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they&#8217;ve found what they consider to be &#8220;enough&#8221; information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don&#8217;t want to wait&#8211;if you&#8217;re interested in a word, we&#8217;re interested too!<\/em><br \/>\nThe Oxford English Dictionary is getting speedier at introducing new words &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/7951874\/Vuvuzela-enters-Oxford-Dictionary-of-English.html\">they have added &#8216;vuvuzuela&#8217;  already<\/a>   along with 2,000 other new words.  But there is still some delay, and online access can be costly if you are a small library.<br \/>\nWordnik has recently added a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/thesaurus\">thesaurus function<\/a> too.<br \/>\nIt has some scientific terms but it would be interesting to hear how well you think it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wordnik is a word-lover&#8217;s delight. Its aim is: .bq to show you as much information as possible, as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/08\/19\/one_for_the_word_lovers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}