Brick – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | November 5, 2009
Archive for the 'Reference' Category
Historical Thesaurus: On Kinship
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Reference & UK | November 5, 2009
Professor Christian Kay from the HTOED team blogs about one of her favourite sections of the Historical Thesaurus.
Good God and Etymology
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | November 4, 2009
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymologies of “good” and “god” and demonstrates the two words are not related.
How to Call Someone “Stupid” in Old English
Historical Thesaurus Week
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Reference | October 30, 2009
Judy Pearsall (OUP’s Reference Publishing Manager) explains how you might call someone “stupid” in Old English.
Ammon Shea Digs Into the Historical Thesaurus
Historical Thesaurus Week
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Reference | October 29, 2009
Ammon Shea explores the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Mr. Manners’ Guide to The F-Word:
Or, “When it is Permissible to Refer to a Goat-effing Contest”
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & Lexicography & Reference | October 29, 2009
Mark Peters explains when and how to properly use the f-word and its variations.
Glass – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | October 29, 2009
Historical Thesaurus Week – Christian Kay reflects
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Dictionaries & Reference & UK | October 29, 2009
Professor Christian Kay reflects on her 40 years’ work on the HTOED.
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?
Monthly Gleanings: October 2009
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | October 28, 2009
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments.
