Spend two minutes to see how a living language, English, with its ability to quickly absorb new words into common use, can be visualized by the gifted visual thinkers of Scriberia for the release of the 12th edition of the  Collins English Dictionary.
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The Collins English Dictionary  has just been released in its 12th edition in the
United Kingdom in various formats, however only the Kindle Edition
is available in the US. The kindle edition can function as the default dictionary on Kindle devices and for the Kindle app on Android phones.


The dictionary draws on Collins extensive language databases and reintroduces many literary and rare words useful for crossword solvers and setters as well as Scrabble players, including words previously only found in the official Scrabble word list.

Collins calls it “The only dictionary you need – the largest single-volume English dictionary in print with over 50,000 newly added words and a total of 722,000 words, meanings and phrases.”

Award-winning author on language Mark Forsyth brings his  insights in his forward to this edition, in which he casts an analytical eye over the latest fields and shifts in meaning that the dictionary reflects.

Enjoy the animation and look into the dictionary, from which you can get more clever peeks at how English itself is being disrupted continuously as to shifts to adapt to accomdate change in culture and technology.

And congratulations to Scriberia

A UK based company that offers graphic recording and facilitation, Scriberia also has been creating “whiteboard videos” that are more closely aligned with classic hand-drawn animation, while reflecting the visual style of the hand-drawn videos created with marker and drawn on whiteboards, made famous by RSA’s use of them to visualize talks and presentations by futurists and great thinkers such as Sir Ken Robinson. Scriberia’s portfolio of services can be found at http://www.scriberia.co.uk/

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