Friday procrastination: link love – pork pies, British libraries, and Dame Judi Dench
What Kirsty from OUP UK has been reading this week.
What Kirsty from OUP UK has been reading this week.
Mark Peters looks at all the variations of the snowclone “set phasers to x” on Twitter.
The podictionary word of the week is “daisy”.
A selection of tennis-related words of wisdom from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Can birds keep a beat?
Anatoly Liberman chronicles the development of the “American variety of English” from its colonial origins through today.
Watch a video of Richard English talk about his forthcoming book Terrorism: How to Respond.
An excerpt from A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright.
Some excerpts from the Oxford Dictionary of Education.
Elvin Lim looks at Presidents Obama and Bush.
On this day in history the G.I. Bill was passed.
An excerpt from The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine.
What Cassie has been reading this week.
Not all foreign-sounding words are quite what they seem.
Kevin Kenny looks at why it is important that we study Native American history.
This week’s podictionary looks at the word “expo.”