Phil Sefton, ELS, weighs in on the difference between “nauseating” and “nauseous”.

A post in honor of this great musician.

Tips on editing from an AMA Manual of Style editor.

Tips on editing from an AMA Manual of Style editor.

Tips on editing from a AMA Manual of Style editor.

OUP USA President Tim Barton has published a detailed overview and position statement regarding the AAP/Authors Guild Settlement with Google which can be found here.  Below is a brief excerpt from the piece.
“…What once seemed at least debatable has now become irrefutable: If it’s not online, it’s invisible. While increasing numbers of long-out-of-date, public-domain books [...]

A recent study out of Harvard confirms Twitter is all vanity. This is not a big surprise to the dictionary team at Oxford University Press. OUP lexicographers have been monitoring more than 1.5 million random tweets Since January 2009 and have noticed any number of interesting facts about the impact of Twitter on language usage. For example the 500 words most frequently used on Twitter are significantly different from the top 500 in general English text.

Ammon wonders about the future of books.

Finally, the answers to our Library Love 2009: Scavenger Hunt are revealed!

To get Library Week, 2009 started Oxford is granting free access to Oxford Reference Online. Start exploring with this great ORO quiz.