[WikiEN-l] Phrase, fable, popular culture

Mon Dec 4 17:35:12 UTC 2006

"Oldak Quill" wrote

> WikiFable sounds a little narrow in scope. I'm not sure what approach
> a larger project would take: creative writing in general?

Traditional dictionaries 'of phrase and fable' contain, as well as mythology, proverbs, folkways, odd expressions. Random page opening: a page with 'enfant terrible', 'England's Darling' (turns out to be Hereward the Wake), 'Queen's English', 'Englishman's home is his castle', inter alia. (And 'inter alia' is between 'IQ' and 'intercalary'.) The cover alludes to 'myth, folklore, legend and literature'.

I'm not suggesting anything quite so diffuse, but there is this genre of dictionary, and we already have the wiki dictionary, and quotation dictionary, in place. 

Charles

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