Dictionaries
Wednesday May 16th, 2012
After ‘shrimp’ comes ‘prawn’
The elusive origin of the word for the sea creature
Wednesday May 9th, 2012
The Oddest English Spellings, Part 20
The short and the long of it, or, going crisscross: good versus mood and flood; friend versus fiend
Wednesday May 2nd, 2012
Further Adventures of Scr-words, or, the Taming of ‘Shrew’
Shrimp, Shrew, Shrewd, Screw, Shrink, Shrug
Wednesday Apr 25th, 2012
Monthly Etymology Gleanings for April 2012
Is loan a verb? Can you turn up missing? Is this between you and I?
