1700s Dictionary to Now

Dictionaries have changed from the 1700s to the present day as they were previously created by a single man names Samuel Johnson. They are now created by numerous lexicographer who add and remove words into the dictionaries that are being used and that are no longer being used in today's society. In 175, Samuel Johnson created the dictionary which took him over 8 years to complete and included 40,000 words, some of which he has created himself which are completely unrecognisable to our current English language

Examples of this include:
Deosculation : Warm Kiss
Odontalgik : Tootache

Nowadays, the dictionary is reviewed 4 times a year by the lexicographers and edited in response to the change in our English language. The OED is also online and includes features such as audio clips which allows you to hear the word if you are unsure of the pronunciation.

Another online dictionary that has been newly developed is the Urban Dictionary which is an online slang version of the current OED. The Urban dictionary allows members of the public who are not lexicographers to add words into this dictionary in which the administrators of the website will verify if the input is a valid addition.

Words such as:
Earphone Zombie
Kanye Not
Pied - are some of the words that have been added and accepted into the Urban dictionary.

Another feature of the urban dictionary is that you are able to 'like' or 'dislike' a word if you think it is correct or incorrect and should've or shouldn't have been included into the urban dictionary. This highlights the language change that has occurred over the years and how technology has influenced the way our dictionaries work as we are now able to share words through Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites in order to share new words that someone has discovered.