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• Net – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast Once upon a time my mother was knitting a style of sweater that had many open holes in the weave. My father looked at it and said “no wonder it’s going so fast, it’s mostly air.” That’s the thing about nets too, they’re mostly air; but it’s what’s ...
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• Fine and Dandy (In All Except Etymology)

  
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  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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• Muraoka on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ in 2002 & 2009

  
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  The closest in 2009 edition ( A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint ) that Muraoka gets to defining κεφαλή as referring to a position of authority is this: Definition #4: he who or that which plays a leading role . And even then, the context of his entry makes it clear that “leading” refers to ...
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• The Ring of Words: From Winterfilth to Blotmath

  
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  J.R.R. Tolkien’s first job was as an assistant on the staff of the OED , and he later said that he had ‘learned more in those two years than in any other equal period of [his] life.’ In The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary , three senior OED editors – Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, ...
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• Brick – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast In his play Measure for Measure Shakespeare makes mention of a garden surrounded by a brick wall. By his time the word brick had been part of the English language for almost 200 years. It seems to have been brought to England by Flemish construction workers ...
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• Good God and Etymology

  
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  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 ...
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• How to Call Someone “Stupid” in Old English Historical Thesaurus Week

  
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  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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• Ammon Shea Digs Into the Historical Thesaurus Historical Thesaurus Week

  
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  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 ...
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• Mr. Manners’ Guide to The F-Word:Or, “When it is Permissible to Refer to a Goat-effing Contest”

  
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  Mark Peters , a language columnist for Good and Visual Thesaurus , as well as the blogger behind The Pancake Proverbs , The Rosa Parks of Blogs , and Wordlustitude is our guest blogger this week. In this post, he looks at variations and usage of the f-word. Obviously, this post contains rather strong language. ...
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• Glass – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  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. ...
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• Rewriting The Gettysburg Address: Historical Thesaurus Week

  
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  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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• Monthly Gleanings: October 2009

  
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  By Anatoly Liberman The British journals of the Victorian era are an inexhaustible source of elegant phrases, which arouse in me sometimes envy and sometimes amused wonderment. Therefore, while remaining true to that style, I will say that I follow the comments sent to this blog “with appreciative interest, ...
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• The Historical Thesarus of the Oxford English Dictionary: Some fun facts and figuresHistorial Thesaurus Week

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

  
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  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nine Words You Might Think Came from Science but Which Are Really from Science Fiction

  
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  from Jeff Prucher ,  Oxford University Press 1. Robotics . This is probably the most well-known of these, since Isaac Asimov is famous for (among many other things) his three laws of robotics. Even so, I include it because it is one of the only actual sciences to have been first named in a science fiction ...
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• Ketchup – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  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 ...
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• Legal Interpreting and Translating: A Research Guide

  
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  Legal Interpreting and Translating: A Research GuideDon FordFCIL Librarian, University of IowaAlthough the guide is specific to the Iowa Library System, the guide offers a nice bibliography of legal translation titles and a list of glossaries and dictionaries in 20 languages from Europe, Asia ,and Africa. Particularly ...
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• The Oddest and Dumbest English Spellings, Part 15, With a Note on Words and Things

  
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  By Anatoly Liberman It has been established long since that to know the origin of a word, one must know the properties of the object the word designates. This idea, sometimes neglected today (to the detriment of those who neglect it), dominated medieval etymologizing. For example, since God was universally ...
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• Podictionary Interview – Philip Durkin

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast This is a special podictionary episode in which I interview Philip Durkin, the Principal Etymologist for The Oxford English Dictionary . I contacted Dr. Durkin because his book The Oxford Guide to Etymology was recently released in North America and he was ...
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• Review and Blog Tour for The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault

  
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  The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Delacorte Press (September 29, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0553807331 ISBN-13: 978-0553807332 ABOUT THE BOOK: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a ...
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