Watered Down Etymologies (Ocean and Sea)
Anatoly Liberman examines the history behind the words ocean and sea.
Anatoly Liberman examines the history behind the words ocean and sea.
OUP congratulates Charles Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith on their Nobel Prize.
A chemical look at The Informant!.
Some of Kirsty’s favourite short poems from The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse.
How can you perform your best?
Elvin Lim looks at General Stanley McChrystal.
An excerpt from Bracing For Armageddon?
Edward Zelinsky applauds the IRS.
Bryan A. Garner’s tip of the day.
What Cassie has been reading this week.
An excerpt from How Fantasy Becomes Reality.
The podictionary word of the week is “Karaoke”.
Tennyson expert Adam Roberts reviews The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which features Tennyson as a main character