http://blog.oup.com/2010/01/dregs/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 14:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2010/01/dregs/#comment-156359 Stephen Goranson Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:33:11 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7263#comment-156359 You wrote: "Serious etymologists do not read blogs, and if they happen to see this post, they will laugh me to scorn." Hmm. You, a serious etymologist, write a blog. Mightn't such a one read a post? In your helpful new book, A Bibliography of English Etymology, paper publications predominate. I wonder what percentage of those pages you consider penned by serious etymologists. Saul Lieberman: "Nonsense is nonsense, but the study of nonsense is scholarship." (Some tradents replace "study" with "history.") You wrote: “Serious etymologists do not read blogs, and if they happen to see this post, they will laugh me to scorn.” Hmm. You, a serious etymologist, write a blog. Mightn’t such a one read a post? In your helpful new book, A Bibliography of English Etymology, paper publications predominate. I wonder what percentage of those pages you consider penned by serious etymologists.
Saul Lieberman: “Nonsense is nonsense, but the study of nonsense is scholarship.” (Some tradents replace “study” with “history.”)

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