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 'Prose' Category
The Ring of Words: From Winterfilth to Blotmath
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Literature & Prose & Reference & UK | November 10, 2009
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
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Prose & Reference | October 28, 2009
How could you use the HTOED to rewrite the Gettysburg Address?
National Book Award Contest: Win Prizes!
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Current Events & Leisure & Literature & Media & Poetry & Prose & Reference | October 23, 2009
OUP is giving it away to celebrate the National Book Awards!
Monsters and Wild Things
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Film & Leisure & Literature & Media & Philosophy & Prose | October 15, 2009
Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.
Garner’s Usage Tip Of The Day: Nouveau Riche
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Prose & Reference | October 2, 2009
Bryan A. Garner’s tip of the day.
Tennyson in The Quickening Maze
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Poetry & Prose & UK | October 1, 2009
Tennyson expert Adam Roberts reviews The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which features Tennyson as a main character
Humorous Quotations
Filed in A-Featured & Art & Leisure & Literature & Prose | September 30, 2009
Quotes to bring a smile to your face.
Will the Internet Create a Universal Writing System?
Filed in A-Featured & Archaeology & History & Prose & Science & Technology & UK & VSI | August 12, 2009
Andrew Robinson, author of Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction on the internet and language.
Meet the Author: Hermione Lee
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & Prose & UK & VSI | August 10, 2009
Professor Hermione Lee talks about her new book Biography: A Very Short Introduction.
