Celebrate – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | July 2, 2009
Archive for the 'Lexicography' Category
Monthly Gleanings, Part Two
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | July 1, 2009
Anatoly Liberman’s monthy gleanings.
Daisy – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | June 25, 2009
June Ends (and so did May)
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | June 24, 2009
Anatoly Liberman chronicles the development of the “American variety of English” from its colonial origins through today.
From nom de plume to el cheapo: Pseudo-foreign words
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Reference & UK | June 19, 2009
Not all foreign-sounding words are quite what they seem.
Expo – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | June 18, 2009
The Evasive Yeoman
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | June 17, 2009
Oxford Etymologist, Anatoly Liberman, traces the roots of the word “yeomen.”
Technology – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | June 11, 2009
Can You Trust Your (Etymological) Dictionary?
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | June 10, 2009
Anatoly Liberman demonstrates the difficulty of tracing the origins of every day words–especially considering the lack of consensus among linguists.
DSNA 2009, or,
Why don’t more people go to conferences?
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Education & Lexicography & Reference | June 4, 2009
Ammon Shea reports on the Dictionary Society of North America Conference.
