{"id":56184,"date":"2023-01-04T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T06:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=56184"},"modified":"2023-01-04T00:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T06:32:30","slug":"on-the-changing-of-the-dictionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=56184","title":{"rendered":"On the Changing of the Dictionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is something morbidly fascinating about watching dictionaries slowly but surely change their definitions of common words. It raises some questions, not the least of which strike to the very purpose of a dictionary. Is a dictionary meant to be an objective arbiter of the meaning of words? Or is a dictionary meant to subjectively list the ways in which words are used among the speakers of a particular language at a particular time? These are valid questions, especially in moments when certain key words are being intensely debated.<\/p>\n<p>It is not without significance that Dictionary.com\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/e\/word-of-the-year\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">word of the year<\/a> for 2022 was <em>woman<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the oldest words in the English language,\u201d they say. \u201cOne that\u2019s fundamental not just to our vocabulary but to who we are as humans. And yet it\u2019s a word that continues to be a source of intense personal importance and societal debate. It\u2019s a word that\u2019s inseparable from the story of 2022.\u201d They explain that searches for the word spiked last year, first when Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked to provide her definition of the term\u2014a request she denied\u2014, then again at the overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something morbidly fascinating about watching dictionaries slowly but surely change their definitions of common words. It raises some questions, not the least of which strike to the very purpose of a dictionary. Is a dictionary meant to be an objective arbiter of the meaning of words? Or is a dictionary meant to subjectively list the ways in which words are used among the speakers of a particular language at a particular time? These are valid questions, especially in \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":56187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[303,354,739],"class_list":["post-56184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","tag-culture","tag-identity","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AdobeStock_326365561-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C633&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56189,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56184\/revisions\/56189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}