Wasting Time and Having Fun With OED Searches.
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | May 8, 2008
Ammon Shea on reading the OED.
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | May 8, 2008
Ammon Shea on reading the OED.
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | May 8, 2008
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Reference & UK | May 8, 2008
David Crystal talks about his book ‘Words, Words, Words’.
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | May 7, 2008
Anatoly explores the history of OK.
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 […]
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | May 1, 2008
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | April 30, 2008
Anatoly explores the history of spelling with the letter w.
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | April 24, 2008
Ammon Shea wonders who wrote the first English dictionary.
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | April 24, 2008
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | April 23, 2008
Anatoly wonders why we double up on names in certain words.