Wasting Time and Having Fun With OED Searches.
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | May 8, 2008
Ammon Shea on reading the OED.
Archive for the 'Lexicography' Category
Flatter – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | May 8, 2008
David Crystal on Words, Words, Words
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Reference & UK | May 8, 2008
David Crystal talks about his book ‘Words, Words, Words’.
The Eternal Fascination of OK
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | May 7, 2008
Anatoly explores the history of OK.
Wienerhuahuas Will Inherit the Earth:
The Blend-y World of Dog Breed Names
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | May 1, 2008
Mark Peters, the genius behind the blog Wordlustitude in addition to being a Contributing Editor for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, and a language columnist for Babble, is our guest blogger this week. Check out his past OUPblog posts here. In the post below Peters ponders dog names.
I think the breed of my dog […]
Pakistan – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | May 1, 2008
Although places like Afghanistan, Kurdistan, and Turkistan have had their names for maybe a thousand years and tend to be in the same general part of the world as Pakistan—that is, sort of north and west of India—Pakistan is a made-up name that hasn’t been around even 100 years.
The Oddest English Spellings, or,
Thinking of O. With My Compliments to the Conference of the Spelling Society in Coventry, UK.
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | April 30, 2008
Anatoly explores the history of spelling with the letter w.
Samuel Johnson and the First English Dictionary
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | April 24, 2008
Ammon Shea wonders who wrote the first English dictionary.
Glossary – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | April 24, 2008
Not All That is Paltry is Trivial, Being a Story of Raggedy-Assed Things and of Several Migratory Rags
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | April 23, 2008
Anatoly wonders why we double up on names in certain words.
