Wednesday Jan 30th, 2013

Monthly etymology gleanings for January 2013, part 1

Anatoly Liberman on week, Vikings, the present perfect, suppletive forms, and Lewis Carroll’s name
Wednesday Jan 16th, 2013

Drinking vessels: ‘goblet’

Anatoly Liberman investigates the origin of the word ‘goblet’
Wednesday Jan 9th, 2013

How come the past of ‘go’ is ‘went?’

Anatoly Liberman on the linguistic phenomenon of suppletion
Wednesday Jan 2nd, 2013

Drinking vessels: ‘tankard’

Anatoly Liberman searches for the origin of the word ‘tankard’
Wednesday
Dec 26th, 2012

Monthly etymology gleanings for December 2012

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Wednesday
Dec 19th, 2012

Why don’t ‘gain’ and ‘again’ rhyme?

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Wednesday
Dec 12th, 2012

Drinking vessels: ‘bumper’

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Wednesday
Dec 5th, 2012

Oh, what lark!

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Wednesday
Nov 28th, 2012

Monthly etymology gleanings for November 2012

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Wednesday
Nov 21st, 2012

Shakespearean passions around ‘bullyragging’

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Wednesday
Nov 14th, 2012

A lovable bully

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Wednesday
Nov 7th, 2012

Monthly etymology gleanings for October, part 2

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Wednesday
Oct 31st, 2012

Monthly etymology gleanings for October, part 1

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Wednesday
Oct 24th, 2012

An etymologist among the gods

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Wednesday
Oct 17th, 2012

‘Awning’ and ‘tarpaulin’

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Wednesday
Oct 10th, 2012

A global ingle-neuk, or, the size of our vocabulary

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