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• Good etymology book?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 632
  My friend recently mentioned that hed like to have a good (American English) etymology book. Can anyone suggest a good one? It can be simple and short or long and detailed, but Id prefer to err on the side of long and detailed.
  6 days ago

• Creatio Verborum Latinorum ex Aliis Verbis Latinis

  
  Diaphanitas — Authority: 137
  "Creatio Verborum Latinorum ex Aliis Verbis Latinis" "The Creation of Latin Verbs from Other Latin Verbs" Allen and Greenoughs New Latin Grammar has a section for the creation of Latin verbs from other Latin verbs: http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/allgre.263.html But it is sometimes not ...
  1 week ago

• Reverse Dictionary - Ever asked yourself “Whats the word for…”

  
  Learning Languages — Authority: 139
  I just happened to observe a fairly attention-grabbing tool today. I was attempting to seek out a word for “Individuals that are behind the days” for my previous blog post.  I did a few searches in Google without avail and eventually started scouring for a tool that did a reverse lookup on a word.  A tool ...
  1 week ago

• three ships

  
  Life at Willow Manor — Authority: 124
  Christmas just wouldnt be he same without listening to that smooth, smokey voice of Nat King Cole. That opening line "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" summons my holiday spirit. The familiarity of his comforting voice, makes me feel all woolly inside, and says that all is as it should be. . This season, ...
  1 week ago

• Wedlock and After

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 526
  By Anatoly Liberman Wedlock , a native English noun, has, as usual, a Romance synonym, namely, matrimony . We will leave out of consideration the raptures of married life (as a lackadaisical damsel put it in Pride and Prejudice , but I am quoting from memory), and give thought to word origins. Matrimony poses no ...
  2 weeks ago

• ALPHABETLOVER

  
  Fifty is the New... — Authority: 106
  Melissa Howden shares a special treat for the “word nerd” in all of us. I am a fan o’ words, an alphabet lover as my friend Lori b has named herself. I love the history, the roots, the story of words. In my etymological meandering through cyberspace I found http://podictionary.com/ Podictionary puts a word ...
  2 weeks ago

• Noughtyisms and Neologisms – ‘Words’ to the mother

  
  Christchurch City Libraries Blog — Authority: 131
  You’ve heard the phrase “What would MacGyver do” but what about the coining and creating of new words and phrases? It’s  Neologic (or “What would Neo from The Matrix do”). The essential Public Address blog brings you the chance to vote for the word of  the year . 2008 was credit crunch (but of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Atlas of True Names

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Samples from a fascinating collection of etymological world maps.
  2 weeks ago

• doppelgänger

  
  Life at Willow Manor — Authority: 124
  Poetikat used the delightful word doppelgänger in a wonderful haiku last week. I commented how much I like the word and she quickly suggested I should post on the subject. After doing a bit of research, I found the word to be even more intriguing than I first thought. dop·pel·gäng·er, noun Etymology: ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Cooked-Goose Chase, or the Murky History of Wayzgoose

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 526
  By Anatoly Liberman The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is bad for the fowl, so that an expanded version of what I said on the subject of wayzgoose in July 2006 (see the “gleanings” ) may be of some interest to the readers who will discover this post in December 2009. The great dictionaries, beginning ...
  3 weeks ago

• when names suggest words...

  
  airform archives — Authority: 419
  i recently acquired this small 6 panel brochure for c. henry adams "bureau of patronymics and patronomatology", published in 1886. adams brochure offers "to the public" his services, to "furnish the etymological meaning of family or proper surnames." he offers the following illustration of how it works: oliver: ...
  3 weeks ago

• On English (and other dialects of Sanskrit)

  
  The Hannibal Blog — Authority: 118
  I mentioned en passant in the previous post that the Sanskrit word vira, hero, is related to the Latin vir, man, and thus to our virtue and virility. And, of course, to the Modern Hindi vir , brave. ( Thank you, Susan .) Well, that sort of thing brings out the language geek in me, and I can’t help ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unfortunate Acronyms: PUS

  
  The Culture of Chemistry — Authority: 99
  When I was lecturing on lasers this week, I was surprised to discover how many of my students were unaware that laser was an acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation). Science is replete with acronyms - Ira Levine once essayed that if you knew enough acronyms you could pretend you knew ...
  3 weeks ago

• One Explanation For Our Political Classes Behavior

  
  QandO — Authority: 138
  Some tools obviously never go out of style in Washington: Hat Tip: Barry Ritholtz
  3 weeks ago

• Etymology of district name Hot

  
  Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon — Authority: 124
  The origins of place names sometimes quite interesting. I have stumbled upon the one for the district Hot in Chiang Mai reading a book I did not expect to find anything on the administrative entities - Sacred Mountains Of Northern Thailand And Their Legends by Donald K. Swearer. As the title says, the book is on ...
  3 weeks ago

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  Legitimate Home Based Business — Authority: 447
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• Etymology of district name Hot

  
  Thailand Voice — Authority: 155
  The origins of place names sometimes quite interesting. I have stumbled upon the one for the district Hot in Chiang Mai reading a book I did not expect to find anything on the administrative entities - Sacred Mountains Of Northern Thailand And Their Legends by Donald… Read full story >>> Written by: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rare and Medium Rare

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 526
  By Anatoly Liberman At the end of the 19th century, rare “underdone” had so little currency in the British Standard (“Queen’s English”) that educated speakers labeled it as an Americanism, though language historians, Skeat among them, knew better than that. He wrote in 1868: “…a very common old ...
  4 weeks ago

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  http://www.hotforwords.com to request words. The origin of Thanksgiving and the term.
  4 weeks ago

• My Other Car is a Yoga Mat Podcast (Episode #3): Arm and Arm

  
  Beth Lapides — Authority: 99
    "My Other Car is a Yoga Mat" is my column about living my - your - our yoga off the mat, and deepening our practices on the mat. Its published in LA Yoga Magazine , Yoga Chicago Magazine and yogamates.com . The collected columns are also available online right here on the website . But I know a ...
  4 weeks ago

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