Saturday Feb 9th, 2013

National Libraries Day UK

Oxford University Press editors on resources at UK public libraries
Wednesday Feb 6th, 2013

Monthly etymology gleanings for January 2013, part 2

Anatoly Liberman on mare, Mars, monkey, and better
Wednesday Feb 6th, 2013

Maybe academics aren’t so stupid after all

Peter Elbow on the linguistic patterns of academia
Tuesday Feb 5th, 2013

Are you still writing 2012 on your tweets?

Mark Peters on playing with joke formulas on Twitter
Wednesday
Jan 30th, 2013

Monthly etymology gleanings for January 2013, part 1

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Wednesday
Jan 23rd, 2013

Wrenching an etymology out of a monkey

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Tuesday
Jan 22nd, 2013

Do you know your references and allusions?

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Saturday
Jan 19th, 2013

Chaucer in the House of Fame

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Wednesday
Jan 16th, 2013

Drinking vessels: ‘goblet’

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Thursday
Jan 10th, 2013

A comic quotation quiz

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Wednesday
Jan 9th, 2013

How come the past of ‘go’ is ‘went?’

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Monday
Jan 7th, 2013

Words of 2012 round-up

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Monday
Jan 7th, 2013

Holy Court of Owls, Batman!

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Friday
Jan 4th, 2013

A definition of ‘hobbit’ for the OED

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Thursday
Jan 3rd, 2013

The Dirty Dozens

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Wednesday
Jan 2nd, 2013

Drinking vessels: ‘tankard’

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