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 'Dictionaries' 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.
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.
Brick – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | November 5, 2009
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.
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.
