Etymology as a Battlefield: Whitsunday
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | November 18, 2009
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of Whitsunday.
Archive for the 'Oxford Etymologist' Category
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.”
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.
Monthly Gleanings: October 2009
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | October 28, 2009
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments.
The Oddest and Dumbest English Spellings, Part 15, With a Note on Words and Things
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | October 21, 2009
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of words with silent letters.
Ethnic Slurs. Part III:
Another Derogatory Name for the Jew: Kike
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | October 14, 2009
Anatoly Liberman examines meaning of the word Kike.
Watered Down Etymologies (Ocean and Sea)
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | October 7, 2009
Anatoly Liberman examines the history behind the words ocean and sea.
Monthly Gleanings: September 2009
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | September 30, 2009
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleanings.
Clobber, Cobbler, and their Ilk
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist & Reference | September 23, 2009
Anatoly Liberman discovers connections between the origins of the words cobbler and clobber.
The Ever-Green Chestnut
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | September 16, 2009
Anatoly Liberman looks at the word “chestnut.”
