The University of Chicago Chronicle

Huge dictionary project at the University of Chicago completed after 90 years

An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Dictionary of Science Fiction Runs From Afrofuturism to Zero-G

In the summer of 1987, movie audiences first met Robocop in the science fiction classic about violence and corrupt corporate power in a future, dystopian Detroit. But the title word is much older than ...
The Ledger

Assyrian Dictionary Project Finally Completed After 90 Years

CHICAGO | It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language that would reveal an ancient world of ...
Oregonian

Mississippi Choctaw dictionary project helps tribe preserve language

The United States government removed Jason Lewis’ ancestors from Choctaw tribal land twice. The family had left Mississippi more than 200 years ago, when the federal government forced most of the ...
Irish Central

Over €1.1 million in funding announced for historical Irish dictionary project

Over €1.1 million in funding has been announced for the Historical Dictionary of Irish or Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge project, which will produce an authoritative dictionary of the Irish language ...