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 'Lexicography' Category
Midwife – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | November 19, 2009
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
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.”
The Ring of Words: From Winterfilth to Blotmath
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Literature & Prose & Reference & UK | November 10, 2009
Senior OED editor Edmund Weiner, one of the authors of The Ring of Words, on Tolkien’s language.
Brick – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | November 5, 2009
Good God and Etymology
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | November 4, 2009
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymologies of “good” and “god” and demonstrates the two words are not related.
