The Art of Punctuation: What your use of quotation marks says about you
An excerpt from our book ‘The Art of Punctuation’ explains that your use of quotation marks can reveal more about you than you think.
Sneak—Snack—Snuck
Anatoly uncovers how sneaked became snuck.
Holiday Help
David Tolin helps us prepare for the holidays
Geography Awareness Week 2007
Ben celebrates Geography Awareness Week!
Mormon Science Fiction
An excerpt from Terryl Givens’s People of Paradox.
Oxford Word Of The Year 2007: Locavore
It’s that time of the year again. It is finally starting to get cold, and the New Oxford American Dictionary is preparing for the holidays by making its biggest announcement of the year. The 2007 Word of the Year is (drum-roll please) ‘locavore’; a trend in using locally grown, seasonal ingredients.
Friday procrastination: link love – books, bagels, and Belgium
I would like to take a moment to say that I finally finished The Savage Detectives. I know I’m a bit behind the rest of the crowd but I am now a full Bolano convert. If you haven’t read the book yet get on it, this is one you simply cannot miss. Also, check out […]
On Women, Sports and the New York Marathon
The authors of Playing With The Boys take a look at the NY Marathon.
How Do “Miss Steaks” Go Unnoticed? It’s Along Story
Ben Zimmer looks at “miss steaks.”
Very Short Introductions: The American Presidency
Charles O. Jones talks to OUP about his ‘The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction’.
Michael Lindsay on the Elections
Michael Lindsay looks at the upcoming elections.
People of Paradox
Terryl L. Givens looks at the candidacy of Mitt Romney.
A Troubled Marriage Between A Skeptic and an Ascetic, or, The Oddest English Spellings
How did we ever come up with the spelling for scythe? Anatoly looks at the history of conjoined letters “sc”.
Warming Island, Greenland
Ben’s Place of the Week is Warming Island, Greenland.
Privacy in Peril?
If you increasingly feel that information about your life is taking on a life of its own; collected, monitored, and transmitted by interests outside your control—you’re probably not paranoid. A recent story tells of a school in England, that’s experimenting with electronic tracking of its pupils.
On Sports and Women
Laura Pappano is a former education columnist for the Boston Globe and co-author of Playing With The Boys: Why Separate is not Equal in Sports. In the op-ed below she brings her love of football to play with her love of competition. If I hadn’t committed to baking a quiche (half ham, half broccoli and […]