The Merriams and the Madman
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries | July 17, 2008
Ammon Shea looks at Merriam’s madman.
Archive for the 'Dictionaries' Category
W – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | July 17, 2008
Ammon’s Favorite Words, This Week
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | July 10, 2008
Ammon’s favorite words are…
Magnet – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | July 10, 2008
An Excerpt From Reading The OED
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | July 3, 2008
An excerpt from Ammon Shea’s Reading The OED.
Quit squawking, fleshwad! Futurama’s human-insult-a-palooza
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Leisure & Lexicography | July 3, 2008
Peters explores the vocabulary used on the show Futurama.
Truffle – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | July 3, 2008
Stealing thunder… OK? The origins of everyday words and phrases
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Reference & UK | July 3, 2008
In celebration of the latest edition of The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, we reveal the origins of some everyday words and phrases.
To Bailout, or Not
Filed in A-Featured & Business & Dictionaries & Lexicography | June 26, 2008
Ammon Shea ponders the word “bailout”.
Beef – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | June 26, 2008
