Wednesday Jan 2nd, 2013
Drinking vessels: ‘tankard’
Anatoly Liberman searches for the origin of the word ‘tankard’
Wednesday Dec 26th, 2012
Monthly etymology gleanings for December 2012
Anatoly Liberman on folk etymology, sound symbolism, galoot, judgment, zigzag, lark, bumper, again, and Scottish English
Monday Dec 24th, 2012
Words like lumps of coal
Reflections on terrible words from the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus
Wednesday Dec 19th, 2012
Why don’t ‘gain’ and ‘again’ rhyme?
Anatoly Liberman on English’s phonetic tricks
