National Book Award Contest: Winners!
Filed in A-Featured & Current Events & Leisure & Literature & Media & Poetry & Prose | November 20, 2009
Who won our NBA contest?
Archive for the 'A-Featured' Category
Friday Procrastination: Link Love
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs | November 20, 2009
What Rebecca has been reading.
Yes Justice Scalia, There Were Patents Relating To Training Horses in the 1890s; But More Importantly, We Need Them Today
Filed in A-Featured & American History & Current Events & Economics & Law | November 19, 2009
Can you patent horse training?
8 Reasons to Unfriend Someone on Facebook
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Leisure & Lexicography & Media | November 19, 2009
A survey of Facebook users on why they would unfriend someone.
Ponytail Pulling is Bad (but awfully good for women’s sports)
Filed in A-Featured & Current Events & Leisure & Media & Politics | November 19, 2009
Laura Pappano discusses Elizabeth Lambert’s hair-pulling and sportsmanship in women’s athletics.
Midwife – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | November 19, 2009
Historical Thesaurus: On dealing with the press interest
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Dictionaries & Media & Reference & UK | November 19, 2009
Professor Christian Kay on the press interest in the HTOED.
Finding the Word of the Year
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | November 18, 2009
Ammon Shea reveals how the Oxford Word of the Year is chosen.
Etymology as a Battlefield: Whitsunday
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | November 18, 2009
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of Whitsunday.
The Killer Trail: The Voulet-Chanoine Mission
Filed in A-Featured & History & UK & World History | November 18, 2009
An excerpt from The Killer Trail by Bertrand Taithe.
