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She is the first woman to speak in the House of Commons, and her words were intelligent and eloquently spoken.
morbs,
“It must derive from morbid,”
reckon it derives fro...
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woman’s lot. It should be in your dictionary. It’s too
common not to be understood.”
it hid what should be seen and silenced what should be heard.
A dictionary of women’s words.
What was the male
equivalent of maiden?
What was the male equivalent of Mrs., of whore, ...
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would prefer to call myself a suffragist.”
Only widows and unmarried women should have the right to vote
We will get the vote sooner or later, but that will not be the end of it. The fight will go on, and it cannot rely solely on women prepared to starve themselves.
wonder how our dictionary will define universal. Back then, it meant all adults, regardless of race, income or property. But it did not mean women, and against this our grandfather railed.
You once made the observation that some words were considered more important than others simply because they were written down. You were arguing that by default the words of educated men were more important
than the words of the uneducated classes, women among them.
Play a position you are good at, and let others play theirs.
git.
“Pillock.”
nuns.
Used loosely to denote a number of females having some common aim, characteristic or calling. Often in a bad sense.
the shrieking sisterhood.
women of the suffragette type as a highly educated,
screeching, childless, and husbandles...
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Dr. Murray had rejec...
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Not all sides have a newspaper to speak for them.”
KNAPPED Pregnant. “Bill got some silly girl knapped and now he’s a daddy, working all day and half the night to feed his squalling babe.”
“My ma had a hard life, Es. Too hard. And no say over any of it. I go to these meetings for her.”
It was a gift, this story. As I listened to Ditte, my memories of life with Da were subtly touched up, like a painter might add a daub of colour to give the impression
morning light. Lily, always so absent, suddenly wasn’t.
The war’s only been going a couple of months, and they think it will be years.
How many Jeds will there be?”
Of some experiences, the Dictionary would only ever provide an approximation.
lexicographers
“Loss,”
don’t think he’ll judge you,” she said.
Few words have as many variants as love.
Among the propaganda of glory, and the men’s experiences of the trenches and death, something needed to be known of what happened to women.
LOVE
A passionate affection. I turned the slip over. ETERNAL Everlasting, endless, beyond death.
Their words are ordinary, but they are assembled into sentences that are grotesque.
I’ve been a bondmaid to you since you were small, Essymay, and I’ve been glad for every day of
it.”
BONDMAID Bonded for life by love, devotion or obligation.
“I’ve been a bondmaid to you since you were small, Essymay, and I’ve been glad for every day of it.” Lizzie Lester, 1915
The Dictionary was an enterprise I had been involved with from the publication of the first words in 1884 to the publication of the last.
bondmaid to the Dictionary.
“This year, the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary has been published, sixty-one years after the completion of the first.
the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was biased in favour of the experiences and sensibilities of men.
