Comments on: Monthly etymology gleanings for December 2012 http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/monthly-gleanings-for-december-2012/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Monthly etymology gleanings for January 2013, part 1 | OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/monthly-gleanings-for-december-2012/#comment-354425 Monthly etymology gleanings for January 2013, part 1 | OUPblog Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:30:57 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=33544#comment-354425 [...] time I was writing my monthly gleanings in anticipation of the New Year. January 1 came and went, but good memories of many things remain. [...] [...] time I was writing my monthly gleanings in anticipation of the New Year. January 1 came and went, but good memories of many things remain. [...]

]]> By: Roger Deshaies http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/monthly-gleanings-for-december-2012/#comment-336016 Roger Deshaies Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:49:55 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=33544#comment-336016 I am shamefaced to NOT have discovered your blog until I asked Google to add Etymology to my news list.....GO GOOGLE! Enjoyed Dec 2012 VERY much, and .....from now on. PS looking forward to your book ordered today I am shamefaced to NOT have discovered your blog until I asked Google to add Etymology to my news list…..GO GOOGLE!
Enjoyed Dec 2012 VERY much, and …..from now on.
PS looking forward to your book ordered today

]]> By: Keith Kessler http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/monthly-gleanings-for-december-2012/#comment-332686 Keith Kessler Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:08:39 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=33544#comment-332686 I'm excited to have discovered this excellent blog, of which this entry raised but did not answer a fascinating (at least to me) question: *How* did we end up with a word--"grace"--that denotes such a broad & rich array of traits and states not merely different from but diametrically opposed to those signified by so very many other gr- words? Your other counterexamples (green, flannel, slogan) merely failed to fit the norm for words beginning with the same letters; "grace" flouts it. How come? I don't have a daughter named Grace, and if I did, I wouldn't worry, but I would wonder .... (My superficial online research shows it deriving from PIE root *gwere- "to favor," though it had begun to begin with gr (via metathesis?) by the time it became Latin gratia. (Greek, though, has kept the "r" after the initial vowel.)) I’m excited to have discovered this excellent blog, of which this entry raised but did not answer a fascinating (at least to me) question: *How* did we end up with a word–”grace”–that denotes such a broad & rich array of traits and states not merely different from but diametrically opposed to those signified by so very many other gr- words? Your other counterexamples (green, flannel, slogan) merely failed to fit the norm for words beginning with the same letters; “grace” flouts it. How come? I don’t have a daughter named Grace, and if I did, I wouldn’t worry, but I would wonder …. (My superficial online research shows it deriving from PIE root *gwere- “to favor,” though it had begun to begin with gr (via metathesis?) by the time it became Latin gratia. (Greek, though, has kept the “r” after the initial vowel.))

]]> By: Marc Leavitt http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/monthly-gleanings-for-december-2012/#comment-330566 Marc Leavitt Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:30:39 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=33544#comment-330566 Alle Beste for 2013. I read your blog religiously and learn much from it. By the way, have you noticed that the heads of the muses look like they were added to the bodies by a careless student of the artist? Or am I imagining something? Alle Beste for 2013. I read your blog religiously and learn much from it. By the way, have you noticed that the heads of the muses look like they were added to the bodies by a careless student of the artist? Or am I imagining something?

]]> By: Annie Morgan http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/monthly-gleanings-for-december-2012/#comment-329827 Annie Morgan Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:10:00 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=33544#comment-329827 La, Sir, you do show a fine set of words! But enough larking about... Many thanks for this year, and I so look forward to each Wednesday in 2013. May yours be full of joy and good health. La, Sir, you do show a fine set of words! But enough larking about…

Many thanks for this year, and I so look forward to each Wednesday in 2013. May yours be full of joy and good health.

]]> By: Stephen Goranson http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/monthly-gleanings-for-december-2012/#comment-329738 Stephen Goranson Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:23:08 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=33544#comment-329738 Though I don't know how C. L. Dodgson pronounced his name from a direct source, here are two secondary sources: C. H. Elster, The Big Book of Beastly Pronunciations (1999) 24 cites Ralph H. Emerson that the family "preferred a silent g." And: "His niece wrote to the BBC to say so a long time ago...Emerson informs me" [in private communication]. R. H. Emerson's earlier publication, apparently in Verbatim v. 22 no. 3 (1995) 12, discussed the name. Though I don’t know how C. L. Dodgson pronounced his name from a direct source, here are two secondary sources:
C. H. Elster, The Big Book of Beastly Pronunciations (1999) 24 cites Ralph H. Emerson that the family “preferred a silent g.” And: “His niece wrote to the BBC to say so a long time ago…Emerson informs me” [in private communication].
R. H. Emerson’s earlier publication, apparently in Verbatim v. 22 no. 3 (1995) 12, discussed the name.

]]> By: Tom Watson http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/monthly-gleanings-for-december-2012/#comment-329726 Tom Watson Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:43:04 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=33544#comment-329726 Thank you for the enlightenment and entertainment your column has provided this year. Looking forward to 2013. Thank you for the enlightenment and entertainment your column has provided this year. Looking forward to 2013.

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