Hollywood is a verb: Los Angeles Tackles the Oxford English Dictionary

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Mar 11, 2016

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Hollywood is a verb: Los Angeles Tackles the Oxford English Dictionary

Ken Brecher of the LA Library Foundation joins Alex Cohen to talk about series of special events lined up to look at language in Southern California.

Oxford Dictionaries announced the tears-of-joy emoji as its “Word of the Year” last month.

Ken Brecher of the LA Library Foundation joins Alex Cohen to talk about series of special events lined up to look at language in Southern California.

The Oxford English Dictionary is a compendium of our language as it is written and spoken around the world.

Nouns, verbs, past participles.

The OED includes the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words. It also features three million quotations.

This month, the LA Public Library is celebrating the famed dictionary with a series of events they're calling "Hollywood Is A Verb: Los Angeles Tackles the Oxford English Dictionary."

For more on this, Ken Brecher, president of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, joined host Alex Cohen to talk about the events.

Audio coming soon.