{"id":64,"date":"2008-11-12T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sju.edu\/blogs\/library\/lifelines\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-11-12T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T19:17:14","slug":"64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/lifelines\/64\/","title":{"rendered":"All those words worth thinking over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/lifelines\/files\/2008\/11\/oed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/lifelines\/files\/2008\/11\/oed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever think about why the heck we use the words that we do?\u00a0 Language evolution and word development can tell fascinating stories about how people have communicated throughout history, and the sometimes shocking arbitrariness of our own vocabulary.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.sju.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/dictionary.oed.com\/entrance.dtl\">The Oxford English Dictionary<\/a>, a quintessential reference source for linguistics and English and American literature studies alike, tries to trace a word&#8217;s nuanced and gradual changes in meaning over time by going back to the word&#8217;s earliest textual usage.\u00a0 For example, did you know that the often-heard &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.sju.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/dictionary.oed.com\/cgi\/entry\/50096762?single=1&amp;query_type=word&amp;queryword=good-bye&amp;first=1&amp;max_to_show=10\">good-bye<\/a>&#8216; 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