Friday procrastination: link love – Darwin, dogs, and dictionaries
What Rebecca has been reading.
Monthly Gleanings: January 2009: Part 2
Anatoly’s second installment of January gleanings.
The Enormity Of It All
Ammon Shea responds to his website visitors.
Cuckoo for Snowclone Puffs: An Essential Part of an Insane Vocabulary
Mark Peters explores the phrase “I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
The First American Dictionary: Johnson or Webster?
Ammon Shea looks at who wrote the first American dictionary.
Best Sellers
Ammon Shea looks at best seller lists.
Conundrum: A Cold Spoor Warmed Up
Anatoly looks at the possible origins of the word “conundrum”.
Monthly Gleanings: October 2008, Part One
Anatoly Liberman answers questions based on last month’s posts.
Slang 101
Cassie reads a dictionary of slang and shares some of the great words she finds.
Monthly Gleanings (September 2008)
Anatoly answers questions.
Uppity-up
Ammon Shea takes a look at the word “uppity”.
From Manhood in America to Guyland
An excerpt from Manhood in America.
Precocious and Profane
Ammon Shea recalls a word from his childhood.
Big Problems with the Little Finger, or, A Story of Pinkie
Anatoly looks at the word “pinkie”.
Architecting a Verb?
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”.
Inside Oxford: Questions for Casper Grathwohl
A few questions for Casper Grathwohl.