Historical Thesaurus: On Categories
Professor Christian Kay on categorization in the HTOED.
Professor Christian Kay on categorization in the HTOED.
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of “dandy.”
Senior OED editor Edmund Weiner, one of the authors of The Ring of Words, on Tolkien’s language.
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.
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymologies of “good” and “god” and demonstrates the two words are not related.
Judy Pearsall (OUP’s Reference Publishing Manager) explains how you might call someone “stupid” in Old English.
Ammon Shea explores the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The podictionary word of the week is “glass”.
Professor Christian Kay reflects on her 40 years’ work on the HTOED.
How could you use the HTOED to rewrite the Gettysburg Address?
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments.
Some facts and figures about the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Timeline for the HTOED.
The podictionary word of the week is “ketchup”.
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of words with silent letters.