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Earlier today we posted an excerpt form Chasing The High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person’s Experience With Substance Abuse by Kyle Keegan and Howard B. Moss, M.D. In the excerpt below the authors answer some tough questions about living with substance abuse in your past. Should I tell everyone about my problems with […]
An excerpt from Chasing The High.
Happy Friday to all! It’s been a long week, rain, sunshine, rain again but hopefully the sun will return sometime soon and stick around. Below are some links to keep you busy on this dreary Friday. What is inaccurate about the HBO John Adams series? Hemingway had March Madness? Billy Bragg on royalties. Isabel Allende […]
Paul Hockenos looks at the criticism of the 1968 German student movement.
Ammon Shea shares some advice for beginning dictionary readers.
William Safire blogs about blogs.
Mark Peters looks at synonyms for “bullshit”.
Welcome to podictionary. My name is Charles Hodgson For almost three years now I’ve been producing podictionary – the podcast for word lovers and I’m very pleased to now be able to bring a weekly episode to the OUPblog. Every Thursday I’ll be posting a word-of-the-day podcast here. There are two main differences between podictionary […]
Baroness Mary Warnock and Elisabeth Macdonald respond to a recent UK poll that came out in favour of assisted dying and euthanasia.
Be sure to read the blog tomorrow because we are going to have a bonanza of language posts! I’m so excited I’m going to pull an Ammon Shea and stay up all night reading my Shorter OED.
This story might be titled “Some Words Have a Reputation to Live Up To,” (Part Two). While tracing the convoluted history of ‘charade’, I promised to devote some space to ‘charlatan’. The element ‘char-‘ unites them, and in scholarly works they have frequently been mentioned in one breath.
Stuart Vyse warns us about the dangers of buying on credit.
Kirsty looks back at OUP’s blogging event at the Oxford Literary Festival
Who should have the right to visit Thomas Jefferson’s grave?
Ben’s Place of the Week is Wilkins Ice Shelf.
Perlmutter looks at the media diet of political elites.