Archive for the 'Prose' Category

National Book Award Contest: Winners!

Who won our NBA contest?

The Ring of Words: From Winterfilth to Blotmath

Senior OED editor Edmund Weiner, one of the authors of The Ring of Words, on Tolkien’s language.

Rewriting The Gettysburg Address:
Historical Thesaurus Week

How could you use the HTOED to rewrite the Gettysburg Address?

National Book Award Contest: Win Prizes!

OUP is giving it away to celebrate the National Book Awards!

Monsters and Wild Things

Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.

Garner’s Usage Tip Of The Day: Nouveau Riche

Bryan A. Garner’s tip of the day.

Tennyson in The Quickening Maze

Tennyson expert Adam Roberts reviews The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which features Tennyson as a main character

Humorous Quotations

Quotes to bring a smile to your face.

Will the Internet Create a Universal Writing System?

Andrew Robinson, author of Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction on the internet and language.

Meet the Author: Hermione Lee

Professor Hermione Lee talks about her new book Biography: A Very Short Introduction.

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