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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /blɒɡ/, US /blɑːɡ/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a shortening [[der|en|weblog]],^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(Chambers 2008) itself formed from [[web]] and [[log]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ An online journal: 1998 in Etymonline,^(Etymonline) 1999 in Merriam-Webster.^(MWU 2024) Weblog is attested from 1993, but then meant a file recording each request received by a web server.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The Blogger online publishing service was launched in 1999.^(Etymonline) The verb, to write or update a blog, is first American, from 1999 in Merriam-Webster^(MWU 2024) and in the New Partridge from 2000,^(Dalzell 2013) and has given [[blogger]] and [[blogging]].^(Chambers 2008)^(Collins 2023) Hendrickson finds no connection with Joe Bloggs, the British name for an average man,^(Hendrickson 2008) which is from about 1969.^(Etymonline) An older blog, from about 1860, was a servant boy in a college house, described by Partridge as a perversion of [[bloke]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1860 – an older ''blog'', a servant boy.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1993 – ''weblog'', a server log.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1998 – an online journal.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1999 – verb, and the Blogger service.^(MWU 2024)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[website]] on which a person or group regularly posts opinions, information or links, newest first.^(MWU 2024)^(LDOCE 2009)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To write or update a blog.^(MWU 2024)^(COED 2004)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To write about something in a blog.^(Dalzell 2013)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[weblog]]

+ * [[web]]

+ * [[log]]

+ * [[vlog]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ In Devon and Cornwall dialect a ''blog'' was a figurative use of [[block]], of anything resembling a block.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}