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• An unusual case of risus sardonicus

  
  kalebeul — Authority: 117
  Is Mr Bunny laughing sardonically as he is roasted alive?
  23 hours ago

• Etymology of the word War: Origin and meaning

  
  Grahams Random Ramblings — Authority: 118
  After a couple of posts triggered by Poppy Day I started wondering as to the origin of the word "war" and the dictionary definition.The explanations below I have copied and pasted from Wikipedia. The link will take you to more detailed information and recognition of sources. Definition"War is a reciprocated, armed ...
  1 day ago

• Verba Latina Significantia "Know-It-All"

  
  Diaphanitas — Authority: 140
  "Verba Latina Significantia Know-It-All" "Latin Words Meaning Know-It-All" I was going to coin Latin words meaning "know-it-all": omnisciolus (masculine), omnisciola (feminine). It turns out that the masculine form of the word already exists: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ramminger/words/2/008126.htm ...
  1 day ago

• Should South Park Get Away With Using the F-Word?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  This weeks episode of South Park was an F-word extravaganza. No, not that F-word. The word "fag," the three-letter insult that has become a staple on playgrounds to tease kids, in locker rooms to ridicule teammates, and in the demonstrations of Rev. Fred Phelps and his church crew to wish LGBT people a one-way ticket ...
  4 days ago

• On Writing, Words and Pity

  
  facenews — Authority: 122
  Author Sunny Singh discusses realizing the true meaning of words at www.RedRoom.com . -Erika Rae, Irresponsible Editor For the first time in my life, this past week I felt pity. It may sound strange as the word is so commonplace and yet it was profound experience. As a writer, I am fascinated by the near ...
  4 days ago

• Good God and Etymology

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  By Anatoly Liberman A reader commented on my recent statement that Engl. good and god are unrelated and noted that this statement, in addition to being counterintuitive and undemonstrable, can even lead to schisms. Being a peaceful man, I am very much against all kinds of hostilities. Nor do I think that the ...
  6 days ago

• The real difference between “between” and “among”

  
  Motivated Grammar — Authority: 98
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• "It was not there to protect me from you. It was there to protect you from me"

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 638
  Where does the phrase "It was not there to protect me from you. It was there to protect you from me" come from? Ive been racking my brain to try and remember where this phrase, or a phrase very much like it comes from, but with little luck. It could be a horror movie, but Im not sure. Any ideas?
  1 week ago

• How awesome is awesome?

  
  Sentence first — Authority: 406
  The answer, of course, depends on whether you interpret the question to be enquiring or rhetorical. More to the point, it depends on what you mean by awesome, and here we run into a spot of semantic sludge. Speaking to a friend on the phone last night, I used the word and found myself appending [...]
  1 week ago

• Glass – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast Glass is an example of a word that has shattered into lots of meanings we currently recognize but also with many earlier and forgotten etymological branches. In English the word shows up well over 1100 years ago in the works attributed to King Alfred the Great. ...
  1 week ago

• EPISODE 115 – Ladies’ Night at Games Workshop

  
  Answer Me This! Podcast — Authority: 415
  Hello hello hello! Contrary to what we said last week about releasing Episode 115 a day late, here we are, on Thursday, with Episode 115 ready to go! Don’t believe us? The evidence awaits your ears: Paving this week’s boulevard of broken brains are such topics as: Antoni Gaudí Wembley ...
  1 week ago

• The origins of words, with Sioned Stryd-Cludydd

  
  Quixotic Quisling — Authority: 114
  Mostly, what comes from the mouth of Janet Street-Porter is total bum gravy . This is no exception. “We had a Welsh-speaking budgie. My mother missed Wales very much. I don’t feel Welsh at all. There’s no Welsh words for anything modern.” Street-Porter is one of those people who enjoys a level of media ...
  1 week ago

• Ghit goes generic

  
  kalebeul — Authority: 117
  The Danish-based trends site Ghits.dk is now using my most popular neologism (Google hit -> ghit) for both Google and Yahoo searches. (Dear Mr Larsen, any chance of a link back to the source of your inspiration? Kalebeul or FollowTheBaldie.com would do nicely!)See also:Ghit (ii)In defence of “ghit” pronounced ...
  1 week ago

• A Dictionary of English Place Names (Hardcover)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 144
  A Dictionary of English Place Names (Hardcover)…
  2 weeks ago

• Searching for an etymology for Germanic *handuz hand

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 410
  First, lets get nonsense out of the way by letting a published author state the obvious about origins of the Proto-Germanic etymon *handuz hand that are most implausible yet unfortunately popular among idle hobbyists online. In the words of A. Seidenberg in km, a widespread root for ten (1976): "The effort to relate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wheres Cissylvania?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 638
  Wheres Cissylvania? There are some pairs of geographical names with "cis" and "trans" prefixes. These include Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul; the Ciskei and Transkei in apartheid South Africa; the Cisjordan (present-day Palestine) and Transjordan (present-day Jordan). And then theres Transylvania. Wheres ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  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

• Word of the day

  
  Queer Fresno — Authority: 470
  I like this word.    loquacious \loh-KWAY-shuhs\, adjective : 1. Very talkative. 2. Full of excessive talk; wordy. Taken from:  Dictionary.com
  2 weeks ago

• Etymology from Memory, #3

  
  Justin Erik Halldr Smith — Authority: 125
  There are at least three distinct kinds of tartar , and I would very much like to know whether they are really all that distinct, or whether they may be traced back to a common ancestor. The first is what we today call a Tatar, that is, a Turkic, Muslim inhabitant of Tatarstan and the surrounding areas of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Now THATS Etymology

  
  Conjugate Visits — Authority: 114
  Ive never found word origins very interesting. Every once in a while, Ill wonder how we ended up with a word like "shampoo," so Ill look it up to see that it comes from a Hindi word meaning "to massage." But for the most part, in those moments when Im feeling both intellectually curious and energetic enough to do ...
  2 weeks ago

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