Wednesday Jan 8th, 2014
The color gray in full bloom
By Anatoly Liberman
At the end of the nineteenth century, while working on the issue of the OED (then known as NED: New English Dictionary) that was to feature the word gray, James A. H. Murray sent letters to various people, asking their opinion about the differences between the variants gray and grey. read more »
Sunday Mar 9th, 2014
Jane Austen and the art of letter writing
Taking a Closer Look at Austen’s Language
Sunday Mar 9th, 2014
How do British and American attitudes to dictionaries differ?
Lynne Murphy on how Brits and Americans view the role of a dictionary
Wednesday Mar 5th, 2014
Beggars, buggers, and bigots, part 2
Anatoly Liberman on the ideas connecting beggars and Beguines
Wednesday Feb 26th, 2014
Monthly gleanings for February 2014
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments
Wednesday
Jan 15th, 2014
Front page news: the Oxford Etymologist harrows an international brothel
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