Finding the Word of the Year
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | November 18, 2009 | 5 Comments
Ammon Shea reveals how the Oxford Word of the Year is chosen.
Search Results for "reading the oed"
Ammon Shea Digs Into the Historical Thesaurus
Historical Thesaurus Week
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Reference | October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Ammon Shea explores the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Historical Thesaurus Week – Christian Kay reflects
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Dictionaries & Reference & UK | October 29, 2009 | 4 Comments
Professor Christian Kay reflects on her 40 years’ work on the HTOED.
Monthly Gleanings: September 2009
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | September 30, 2009 | 4 Comments
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleanings.
British Slang of Jewish Origin (?):
Oof and Fefnicute
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
Anatoly looks at oof and
The Evasive Yeoman
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Oxford Etymologist, Anatoly Liberman, traces the roots of the word “yeomen.”
Book Models
Filed in A-Featured & Art & Literature | June 5, 2009 | No Comments »
A look at two very personal cover images.
DSNA 2009, or,
Why don’t more people go to conferences?
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Education & Lexicography & Reference | June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ammon Shea reports on the Dictionary Society of North America Conference.
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”.
Hanging Noodles
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Prose | May 14, 2009 | No Comments »
Ammon Shea reviews I’m Not Hanging Noodles On Your Ears.
