Today we visited the
Oxford English Dictionary on-line. We looked at the history of
knight and
knave (particularly interesting as both words began in the same semantic space and them shifted in opposite directions), and at
boy and
girl.
Reminder: As students at WSU, you have access to this website.
(1) Just go to the WSU libraries website (http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu),
(2) then click on the
Griffin Catalog tab and search for
Oxford English Dictionary.
(3) When the search results show up, click on the
Oxford English Dictionary [electronic resource] link.
(4) Then click on the
Oxford English Dictionary -- Oxford Univ Pr Oxford English Dict link and
(5) log in with your network id and password.
Then you will find yourself logged in at the OED on-line website.