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• Fine and Dandy (In All Except Etymology)

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  By Anatoly Liberman Dandy first made its appearance on the Scottish border and in the 1780’s became current in British slang. Its origin (most probably, dialectal) remains a mystery—a common thing with such words. Etymologists have grudgingly resigned themselves to the idea that dandy goes back to the pet ...
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• stinkard, n.

  
  CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC — Authority: 421
  1. One who stinks. Formerly often used as a term of abuse. Now rare or Obs. c1600 Timon I. ii. (1842) 6 Out, out, thou stinckard, mans grand enemy. 1601 B. J onson Poetaster iv . i, The Gods were a sort of Goslinges, when they suffred so sweete a breath to perfume the bed of a stinkard. 1612 C hapman ...
  6 days ago

• Historical Thesaurus: On Kinship

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Continuing on from our Historical Thesaurus week , I’m delighted to be able to bring you another wonderful original post from Professor Christian Kay , who headed up the project. Today she tells us about one of her favourite sections of the HTOED : kinship. You can read her previous OUPblog post here . One ...
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• Attention antedaters: ‘Air guitar’

  
  CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC — Authority: 421
  I doubt that it dates only to 1983. Also, strange to cite a Sopranos script for use of “air guitar,” isn’t it? air guitar , v. orig. U.S. 1. intr. To mime the action of playing a guitar, esp. to a recording or performance of rock music. Cf. air guitar n. 1983 J. M c K enna & M. M ...
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• The real difference between “between” and “among”

  
  Motivated Grammar — Authority: 103
  I apologize for not posting much recently, but I’ve been bogged down with being a grad student — submitting a paper, setting up a self-paced reading study, and moving apartments. But in the course of compiling that paper, I skimmed through an article with the following title: (1) Establishing relationships ...
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• How to Call Someone “Stupid” in Old English Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Lauren, Publicity Assistant It’s sad, but true. Historical Thesaurus week has come to an end. We feel like we’ve read it cover to cover (to cover to cover) and it’s hard to let go. And so, I’d like to leave you with a valuable lesson I learned: how to use the HTOED to call someone “stupid” in Old ...
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• Books unfinished

  
  Kaet's Weblog — Authority: 118
  I have to admit, the number of books I have listed as read, but haven’t yet reviewed here is a bit daunting, so I thought I’d make things a little less so by discussing some of the books I haven’t finished. Hopefully most of them will get added to the list and mentioned again reasonably soon… This post will ...
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• Ammon Shea Digs Into the Historical Thesaurus Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Lauren, Publicity Assistant Ammon Shea is a vocabularian, lexicographer, and the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages . In the videos below, he discusses the evolution of terms like “Love Affair” and names of diseases, as traced in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rewriting The Gettysburg Address: Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Welcome to Historical Thesaurus Week on the OUPblog! Every day this week we will be looking at the first historical thesaurus to be written for any of the world’s languages, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary . Conceived and complied by the English Language Department of the University ...
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• The Historical Thesarus of the Oxford English Dictionary: Some fun facts and figuresHistorial Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  By Kirsty McHugh, OUP UK Today sees the long-awaited publication of The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary . Conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow , and based on the Oxford English Dictionary , it is the result of 44 years of scholarly labour. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Introducing The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English DictionaryHistorical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Welcome to Historical Thesaurus Week on the OUPblog! Every day this week we will be looking at the first historical thesaurus to be written for any of the world’s languages, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary . Conceived and complied by the English Language Department of the University ...
  2 weeks ago

• Historical Thesaurus is a masterpiece worth waiting 40 years for

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  In a world infatuated with speed a new thesaurus proves the virtue of patience say Henry Hitchings.
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• Ketchup – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast There’s no other kinds once you’ve tasted the brine of pickled fish. That seems to have been the feeling of sailors who’d been exposed to a tasty kind of sauce during their voyages to Malaysia. According to most dictionaries the Malaysians appear to have ...
  3 weeks ago

• narcocracy, n.

  
  CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC — Authority: 421
  1. A body of people responsible for the implementation of drug laws. rare . 1983 National Rev. (Nexis) 29 Apr. 492 The National Research Council report of June 21, 1982 ... was promptly suppressed by the narcocracy because it questions the efficacy of marijuana prohibition and advocates complete ...
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• The Nordics - and Scandinavia

  
  The Engine Room — Authority: 122
  A recent email from our CEO talked about "plans to sell our businesses in the Nordics". The Nordics? Id thought that the Nordic countries and Scandinavia were synonyms (if Id thought about it at all), but it appears that the former term almost always includes Finland and Iceland, while the latter term often doesnt. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Does My Degree Qualify Me to Take the Patent Bar?

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 601
  Some of the most popular pages month after month on IPWatchdog.com are our Patent Bar information pages, and given that I teach for the PLI Patent Bar Review Course we get a lot of e-mail inquiries regarding the patent bare examination.  Pretty much every week we hear from individuals who are interested in becoming ...
  4 weeks ago

• A woman cant fornicate. Well, not without consent of the king at least.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 733
  I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I will die with a certain measure of satisfaction knowing that I put the sentence "Butch fucked the mannikin through the hole he drilled in its crotch" into the Oxford English Dictionary . Using lots of NSFW language, OED editor for North America and author of The F-Word Jesse ...
  5 weeks ago

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