Etymology as a Battlefield: Whitsunday
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of Whitsunday.
Search Results for " boondoggle"
Monthly Gleanings, Part Two
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | July 1, 2009 | 7 Comments
Anatoly Liberman’s monthy gleanings.
Seething in Etymological Vacuity (The Story of Theodolite)
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | May 20, 2009 | 4 Comments
Anatoly looks at the word “theodolite”.
An Etymologist As Lord of the Flies,
Or, Chicanery and Shenanigans All Over the Place
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | January 14, 2009 | No Comments »
Anatoly looks at the origin of the word “chicanery.”
