Monthly Gleanings
Anatoly answers questions that have come up throughout the month.
Monthly Gleanings
Anatoly answers readers’ questions and looks at the origins of bigot.
Monthly Gleanings
Anatoly answers this month’s questions and explains the intriguing history of the words element and hocus pocus.
Monthly Gleanings
September 2007
Anatoly looks at some questions from the past month.
Monthly Gleanings (August 2007)
Anatoly answers questions gleaned from your comments.
Monthly Gleanings: (July 2007)
Anatoly answers this month’s questions.
Monthly Gleanings: May 2007
Anatoly reflects on his work in the past month.
Monthly Gleanings: April 2007
Anatoly’s April gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: March 2007
Anatoly’s monthly gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: February 2007
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleaings.
Monthly Gleanings: January 2007
Anatoly’s monthly gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: December 2006
Anatoly Liberman’s Monthly Gleanings.
Monthly Gleanings: November, 2006
Anatoly Liberman answers some questions readers have submitted.
Monthly gleanings
On August 23, I appeared on the “Midmorning” show on Minnesota Public Radio. Many of you called in with questions, to some of which I could give immediate answers. But, the origin of several words I did not remember offhand and I promised to look them up in my database. Here are my responses.
(Bi)Monthly Gleanings
By Anatoly Liberman In June and July there were several queries about word origins and a general question about the availability of linguistic information, which shows that no heat wave can dry up people’s interest in etymology. Wayzgoose. This word appeared late and is odd because it denotes an entertainment given specifically to printers at […]
Monthly Gleanings,
May 2006
by Anatoly Liberman Alex, a fifth-grader and so far the youngest reader of this blog, wants to know how to start investigating one’s family name. This question interests many people who study their genealogy. (Pay attention to the spelling: in American English, genealogy rhymes with geology, biology, and philology, but its root is Latin genea […]