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I notice that my posts on usage, including spelling, invite livelier comments than those on word origins, and most questions I receive also concern usage. This is natural, and, as always, I am grateful for questions, suggestions, and criticism. Today I will take care of about half of my backlog but will try to get rid of the other half in May.
When is it okay to include a child in a medical research study?
An excerpt from Inventing the “American Way”.
Richard Barrios shares his list of the ten best musical films of all time.
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments.
A post about health care from author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
Elvin looks at the health-care debate through a historical lens.
An acrostic using terms from Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn.
The top ten propaganda messages of the last century.
Oxford Etymologist, Anatoly Liberman, traces the roots of the word “yeomen.”
Science historian Patricia Fara looks at environmentalism.
Owen Davies, professor of social history at the University of Hertfordshire, has written extensively about the history of magic, witchcraft and ghosts. His most recent book, Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, is a history of magic books that takes us from ancient Eygpt, through Kabbalah, Scandinavian witchcraft, 19th-century Egyptology, West African folk religion, a […]
An excerpt from The G.I. Bill: A New Deal For Veterans.
Anatoly investigates the origin of the word ‘race.’
Stephen Specter looks at the contrast between Bush and Obama’s views on Israel and Islamic extremists.
How should we govern the internet?