The school year for students, teachers and parents has been difficult with COVID-19 presenting all sorts of challenges including remote learning. Melbourne, more than any other city or town in Australia, struggled with a second serious lockdown.
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By anyone’s standards 2020 has been a difficult year. Drought, floods, bushfires and the pandemic have created the perfect storm of misery and gloom for many.
For those of us living in Melbourne it has been particularly challenging. Severe lockdowns and being virtual prisoners in our own postcodes for months on end have not been easy. For those who have lost their loved ones and their jobs, the year has been even more wretched.
The process of collecting words for the dictionary is gloriously democratic and collaborative, with hundreds of contributors sending words, their meanings and a quotation to illustrate meaning on slips of paper through the post. A team of lexicographers works diligently to process and consider each submission, carefully filing slips in pigeonholes in their scriptorium. A scriptorium is the writing room of a monastery and these men – assisted by young women – see their work as a calling.
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