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• Myriad: How Does This One Work?

  
  The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar — Authority: 417
  Tamara K. wrote with this question: The word myriad has been popping up more and more lately. I even heard it in a show about the Great Barrier Reef, on sports newscasts and in business meetings. But, my understanding of the word that it should be used like the word “many.” However, whenever I hear it used it ...
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• Historical Thesaurus: On dealing with the press interest

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  Our Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary expert, Professor Christian Kay , blogs about the numerous press enquiries and interviews in the wake of the HTOED’s publication. To read more about the HTOED click here . An unexpected outcome of the publication of HTOED was the interest it generated ...
  1 week ago

• Finding the Word of the Year

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  Ammon Shea is a vocabularian, lexicographer, the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages and a frequent OUPblog contributor .  In light of our Word of the Year 2009 announcement (WOTY) Ammon has taken a closer look at how WOTY is chosen.  In the post below he reveals the process that led to ...
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• Fine and Dandy (In All Except Etymology)

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• stinkard, n.

  
  CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Historical Thesaurus: On Kinship

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Attention antedaters: ‘Air guitar’

  
  CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  Motivated Grammar — Authority: 100
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Books unfinished

  
  Kaet's Weblog — Authority: 122
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ammon Shea Digs Into the Historical Thesaurus Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rewriting The Gettysburg Address: Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Historical Thesarus of the Oxford English Dictionary: Some fun facts and figuresHistorial Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 742
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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