Friday procrastination: link love – Darwin, dogs, and dictionaries
What Rebecca has been reading.
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.
Anatoly looks at the word “pinkie”.
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”.
A few questions for Casper Grathwohl.