“Refudiate this, word snobs!”
Here at Oxford, we love words. We love when they have ancient histories, we love when they have double-meanings, we love when they appear in alphabet soup, and we love when they are made up.
Freedom Riders: The Film Premiere
Author Raymond Arsenault sees his book turned into a film.
A mystery-y-ish-y word trend: the –y suffix has gone bananas
Many lessons can be gleaned from watching reruns of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’: Indirect sunlight is not an unlife-ender for vampires. Some small-town mayors may yearn to become giant unholy snake things (no surprise there). As Cordelia Chase said, “People, you’ve got to leave your tombs earthed.” (Whoops, that was on the Buffy spinoff Angel—but whatever).
Abraham Lincoln Almost Failed
Jennnifer Weber looks at how Abraham Lincoln almost failed.
Mourning Sheldon Meyer
Oxford University Press mourns Sheldon Meyer.
The Russia-Ukraine Natural Gas Squabble
by Andrew Jack Much hot air has been generated in recent days by the New Year’s dispute between Russia and Ukraine over gas prices. The saga has highlighted, to misquote Winston Churchill, commercial interests wrapped up in economics, and justified by politics. On the surface, the squabble looks ugly and one-sided: the great Russian bear […]