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ephebophobe · noun
one who has a fear of youths

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A Second Edition · August 2026
In development, a new incarnation of Lyre's Dictionary.

End of Twitter Support · June 2026
Lyre's Dictionary will no longer post to Twitter

Notes on Using Old English Roots · December 2024
Process notes on recent work to generate words from Old English roots

Bluesky and Mastodon Migration · December 2024
Announcing changes to the social media bot accounts

Web Site Redesign · November 2024
Announcing the new design of the Lyre's Dictionary web site, and the new word of the day feature

Output Anthology · October 2024
Lyre's Dictionary will be included in an upcoming anthology book.

Old English Update · September 2024
Feeds now include words with Old English roots

Old English Roots · February 2024
Showing some ongoing work on generating words from Old English roots

Future Work · July 2023
On possible future additions to Lyre's Dictionary.

Sources for Etymology · June 2023
On sources of etymological information used to build the Lyre's Dictionary corpus.

Constructing the Corpus · February 2023
On the choices that went into assembling the corpus of data for Lyre's Dictionary.

How does it work? · December 2022
A brief explanation of how Lyre's Dictionary works, and how that determines the kinds of words it makes.

What and why? · July 2022
Answering what is Lyre's Dictionary, and why did I create it?

Introduction · June 2022
A brief introduction to this blog.