Architecting a Verb?
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | July 31, 2008
Ammon reflects on last weekend’s NYTBR.
Archive for July, 2008
Post-traumatic Snowclone Disorder:
A Formula for the Favre Retirements, Foreign Policies, and Sea Monkeys We Can’t Get Over
Filed in A-Featured | July 31, 2008
Mark Peters, the genius behind the blog Wordlustitude in addition to being a Contributing Editor for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, and a language columnist for Babble, and the author of Yada, Yada, Doh!: 111 TV Words That Made the Leap from the Screen to Society is our guest blogger this week. Check out his [...]
Anathema – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | July 31, 2008
American Nicknames Part 2: Hoosier
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | July 30, 2008
Anatoly looks at the nickname “Hoosier”.
Inside Oxford: Questions for Casper Grathwohl
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Online Resources & Reference | July 30, 2008
A few questions for Casper Grathwohl.
Challenge Oxford!
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Reference & UK | July 30, 2008
Test your wordpower against Oxford’s experts.
Kowloon Peninsula, China
Filed in A-Featured & Ben's Place of the Week & Geography & Reference | July 29, 2008
Ben’s Place of the Week is Kowloon Peninsula, China.
Candidates, Fortuna, and Political Regimes
Filed in A-Featured & American History & Current Events & Media & Politics | July 29, 2008
Elvin Lim looks at the Presidential candidates.
“Overture . . . Dim the Lights”:
The Fifteen Best Broadway Overtures
Filed in A-Featured & Media & Music | July 29, 2008
A look at the best overtures.
Showers in Raincoats
Filed in A-Featured & Health & Medical Mondays & Psychology | July 28, 2008
Why is safe sex so difficult to encourage?
