These announcements are for the Dictionary of Words in the Wild (lexigraphi.ca) maintained by Geoffrey Rockwell and Kamal Ranaweera.
Save the Words
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:38:19 MST
Oxford University Press has a playful project called
Save the Words where you can adopt a rarely used word. The interface presents the words to be adopted as if photographs of words in different contexts. Check it out!
Lexigraphi.ca passes 6K images and 7K words
Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:31:06 MDT
The Dictionary of Words in the Wild has passed the 6000 images threshold and now has more than 7000 unique words. This is largely due to Willard McCarty who has been posting words from Australia.
McCarty Lectures at Alberta
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:31:50 MDT
Willard McCarty gave a series of
5 lectures at the University of Alberta. In his first lecture, "A Pisgah-Sight of Readers and Texts," he discussed the
Dictionary of Words in the Wild as a promising model for literary computing. Using images from the Dictionary he ended with a slide of
Sorry it took so long.
