lexicography

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• Buzzwords of 2009 in the New York Times

  
  Double-Tongued Dictionary — Authority: 103
  My annual buzzwords of the year piece for the New York Times has appeared today, featuring expressions such as aporkalypse , swine flu party , El Stiffo , Octomom , and sexting . Also, theres a discussion going on about them on the New York Times Ideas blog , where you can leave your own comments about ...
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• Gorilla – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 520
  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast About 2500 years ago a fellow named Hanno was put in charge of sixty ships and sailed out of the Mediterranean and down the western coast of Africa. The account of his voyage was later translated into Greek and much later drawn upon to give a scientific name to ...
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• Wedlock and After

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 520
  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 ...
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• Rodent – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 520
  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast There’s an etymological connection between the platform upon which speeches are made and squirrels, rats and beavers. The platform I’m talking about is a rostrum. A rostrum is so called because it was so called in ancient Rome. People would stand on a ...
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• A Cooked-Goose Chase, or the Murky History of Wayzgoose

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 520
  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 ...
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• Prevaricate – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 520
  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast In 1601 Philemon Holland came out with an English translation from Latin, of the now 2000 year old Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder. Here’s what Pliny had to say about the word prevarication : “The ploughman, unlesse he bend and stoupe ...
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• Rare and Medium Rare

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 520
  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 ...
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• Chauvinist – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 520
  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast When I hear the word chauvinist I think of a person—male—who takes a superior view of the capabilities of his gender. I guess I’m influenced by the 1970s phrase male chauvinist pig that evolved out of the woman’s lib movement. Dictionaries take a ...
  3 weeks ago

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