Friday procrastination: link love – Sesame Street, Walt Whitman and the Yankees
What Rebecca has been reading.
What Rebecca has been reading.
A top-ten-list.
The podictionary word of the week is “brick”.
Professor Christian Kay from the HTOED team blogs about one of her favourite sections of the Historical Thesaurus.
Roger Scruton argues that there are universal standards by which to judge art.
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymologies of “good” and “god” and demonstrates the two words are not related.
An excerpt from Martyrs and Murderers by Stuart Carroll.
Dennis Baron wishes the internet a happy birthday!
Peggy Pascoe looks at Justice of Pece Keith Bardwell’s refusal to marry Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay.
Elvin Lim looks at the upcoming elections.
Edward Zelinsky looks at the Obama Administration’s plan to send an additional $250 to social security recipients.
An excerpt from Diabetes: The Biography.
Judy Pearsall (OUP’s Reference Publishing Manager) explains how you might call someone “stupid” in Old English.
The answer to Gordon Thompson’s riddle.
Cats brighten our days.
What Kirsty has been reading in Oxford this week.