Why Don’t We Know the Origin of the Word Ghetto?
Anatoly reviews possible origins of the word ‘ghetto.’
Anatoly reviews possible origins of the word ‘ghetto.’
What Cassie has been reading this week.
Anatoly answers questions.
What Rebecca has been reading.
Anatoly’s second installment of January gleanings.
Ammon Shea responds to his website visitors.
Mark Peters explores the phrase “I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
Ammon Shea looks at who wrote the first American dictionary.
Ammon Shea looks at best seller lists.
Anatoly looks at the possible origins of the word “conundrum”.
Anatoly Liberman answers questions based on last month’s posts.
Cassie reads a dictionary of slang and shares some of the great words she finds.
Anatoly answers questions.
Ammon Shea takes a look at the word “uppity”.
An excerpt from Manhood in America.
Ammon Shea recalls a word from his childhood.