/lit/ - Literature

>>21739129
ugh, this is frustrating to no end because I've found like three or four words flipping through my copy that weren't anywhere online, but I didn't think to write them down and there's no way I'm gonna spend hours sifting through thousands of definitions hoping to find one. But I can give a recent example of the primary definition of a word being removed; if you compare the Webster1913 definition of "foliation" to the online result when you google the definition, the original meaning is usually completely omitted, and in some online dictionaries it's only included at the very bottom. If you saw the word in an old book, you'd have to google "define foliation in architecture" in order to get its meaning--but if you didn't realize it was an architectural term, you wouldn't know to google that, so instead you'd leave thinking it had something to do with sheets of metal since that's all google tells you.