Your cheatin’ words
Ammon Shea explores cheating in the OED.
“I love the night passionately” An excerpt from Paris Tales
An excerpt from Guy de Maupassant’s short story ‘A Nightmare’.
Monthly Gleanings
Anatoly answers questions posed in March.
A Most Holy War and Religious Violence
Mark Gregory Pegg helps us understand religious violence with historical perspective.
Argungu, Nigeria
Ben’s Place of the Week is Argungu, Nigeria.
Text Messaging as Toy or Tool
Naomi S. Baron, author of Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, explains to us the generation gap in text messaging.
Helpful Parenting Strategies for Your Bipolar Child
An excerpt from Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Guide For Individuals and Families.
Activities for Mood Stabilization
Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Guide For Individuals and Families by Michael W. Otto, Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington, Robert O. Knauz, Aude Henin and Jane N. Kogan aims to help suffers learn how to better recognize mood shifts before they happen, minimize their impact, and move on with their lives. This book teaches individuals with bipolar […]
Into The Woods: The Oxford Companion To Fairytales
An excerpt from The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales.
Press Blog Link Love
The press blogs Rebecca has been reading.
Advice for Hillary
Sally G. McMillen, author of Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement looks at Hillary Clinton’s run for president.
Absurd entries in the OED: an introduction by Ammon Shea
All dictionaries have mistakes. Ghost words creep in, there are occasional misspellings, or perhaps the printer was hung over one day and misplaced some punctuation. In addition to these normal forms of human error there are others that are created by language, as it continues its inexorable change.
Very Short Introductions: The Quakers
Pink Dandelion answers a few questions on his Very Short Introduction to The Quakers
Some Words Have A Reputation To Live Up To
It is not fortuitous that many words like ‘puzzle’, ‘conundrum’, and ‘quiz’ are themselves puzzles from an etymological point of view. They arose as slang, sometimes as student slang, and as we don’t know the circumstances in which they were coined, our chances of discovering their origin is low.
“Only 22%” Political Blog Readership Is Pretty Good…
Perlmutter looks at the readership of political blogs.
Traditional Polynesian Tattooing
Adrienne L. Kaeppler, author of The Pacfic Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia, tells us a little about traditional Polynesian tattooing