Monthly Gleanings: December 2009
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: November 2009
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments.
Monthly Gleanings: October 2009
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments.
Monthly Gleanings: September 2009
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings, Part Two: (August 2009)
Anatoly Liberman’s gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings, Part I: (August 2009)
By Anatoly Liberman Squaw. My post on squaw produced some ripples. Three lawyers from Michigan gave me the lashing of their tongue(s). (I am sorry for the parentheses, but I always feel uncomfortable when I have to say something like: “Three people put their foot in their mouth.” Should it be feet and mouths?) Their […]
Monthly Gleanings, Part Two
Anatoly Liberman’s monthy gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: May 2009
Anatoly’s monthly gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: April 2009
Anatoly answers questions.
Monthly Gleanings: March 2009
Anatoly answers questions about word origins.
Monthly Gleanings: February 2009
Anatoly answers questions.
Monthly Gleanings: January 2009: Part 2
Anatoly’s second installment of January gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: January 2009
Anatoly’s January gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: November 2008
Anatoly’s November gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: October 2008, Part Two
Hello. In connection a previous post, I received two questions about the word ‘hello’. The first concerned the repertory of h-interjections in the languages of the world. In 1924 Ernst Schwentner brought out a booklet titled ‘The Primary Interjections in the Indo-European Languages’ (in German).
Monthly Gleanings: October 2008, Part One
Anatoly Liberman answers questions based on last month’s posts.