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.
Archive for the 'Reference' Category
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.
Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Current Events & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Reference | November 16, 2009
Our word of the year has “lex-appeal”.
Net – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | November 12, 2009
Historical Thesaurus: On Categories
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Reference & UK | November 12, 2009
Professor Christian Kay on categorization in the HTOED.
Technology Reduces the Value of Old People, Warns MIT Computer Guru
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & Media & Online Resources | November 11, 2009
Dennis Baron looks at the dilemma of being old in the internet age.
Fine and Dandy (In All Except Etymology)
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | November 11, 2009
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of “dandy.”
