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Last Sunday, in the NY Times, I read a book reviewer taking an author to task for her word use. The reviewer stated that “the last time I checked the American Heritage Dictionary, in spite of how computer trade journalists might choose to use the word, “architect” was not recognized as a verb”.
A few questions for Casper Grathwohl.
A look at the role of competition in sports violence.
Ammon Shea wonders what makes a dictionary “hardcore”.
Mark Peters looks at euphemisms.
Charles Hodgson explores the word “Assess”.
Ammon Shea explains how dictionaries ruined his Scrabble game.
Ammon Shea shares some advice for beginning dictionary readers.
William Safire blogs about blogs.
Mark Peters looks at synonyms for “bullshit”.
Welcome to podictionary. My name is Charles Hodgson For almost three years now I’ve been producing podictionary – the podcast for word lovers and I’m very pleased to now be able to bring a weekly episode to the OUPblog. Every Thursday I’ll be posting a word-of-the-day podcast here. There are two main differences between podictionary […]
Mark Peters guest blogs for Ben Zimmer.
Happy birthday J.R.R. Tolkien!
Ben Zimmer looks at the word “decimate”.
Aaron Filler looks at what makes humans- “human.”
Earlier this week I spent an enjoyable hour being interviewed on the Wisconsin Public Radio show “At Issue with Ben Merens.” Though our topic was ostensibly the New Oxford American Dictionary’s choice of ‘locavore’ as Word of the Year, we soon ventured into other word-related matters, such as ‘O’.