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Wednesday Nov 21st, 2012

Shakespearean passions around ‘bullyragging’

From rooks to rags and the Globe to Harvard
Tuesday Nov 20th, 2012

Seven words that gained fame on TV shows

From omnishambles to TARDIS
Wednesday Nov 14th, 2012

Six WOTY confusables about GIF

OED vs. other dictionaries, and is an acronym a word?
Wednesday Nov 14th, 2012

A lovable bully

That a word like ‘bully’ should vex etymologists needn’t surprise anybody.
Tuesday
Nov 13th, 2012

To gif or not to gif

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Tuesday
Nov 13th, 2012

How we decide Word of the Year [GIFed]

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Tuesday
Nov 13th, 2012

Ten variations of ‘omnishambles’

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Monday
Nov 12th, 2012

Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year 2012: ‘omnishambles’

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Monday
Nov 12th, 2012

Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012: ‘to GIF’

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Wednesday
Nov 7th, 2012

Monthly etymology gleanings for October, part 2

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Friday
Nov 2nd, 2012

Curly-murly, flippy-floppy boom-booms

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Wednesday
Oct 31st, 2012

Monthly etymology gleanings for October, part 1

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Sunday
Oct 28th, 2012

When a language dies

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Wednesday
Oct 24th, 2012

An etymologist among the gods

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Friday
Oct 19th, 2012

The birth of disco

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Wednesday
Oct 17th, 2012

‘Awning’ and ‘tarpaulin’

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