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Best dictionary for historical novelist?

Nov-11-08-6:20PM

by Etymology Fan 

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Oxford University Press US word of the year: “hypermiling”

Nov-10-08-7:14AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

Canadese: Spellchecked into oblivion

Nov-09-08-5:24AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

#@!* What makes language ‘foul’?

Nov-09-08-5:24AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

‘M’ is for missiles; ‘N’ is for knives: “home in” vs. “hone in”

Nov-09-08-5:23AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

The week’s best invented words collected in the Toronto Star

Nov-09-08-5:22AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

Some British town councils avoid use of Latin in official docs

Nov-03-08-10:46AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

The Supreme Court considers the F-word

Nov-02-08-7:28AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

The political language of 2008

Nov-01-08-9:50AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

What is the correlation between transmission of genes and language?

Nov-01-08-9:49AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

You May Soon Know if You’re Hogging the Discussion

Oct-31-08-1:36PM

by Hoosier Handheld 

2

Sign language: amusing signage

Oct-28-08-4:10PM

by EmmettRedd 

2

Rwanda drops French and takes up English as an official language

Oct-17-08-5:38PM

by Unfrench Frenchman 

2

Its Native Tongue Facing Extinction, Arapaho Tribe Teaches the Young

Oct-17-08-5:43AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

“Fail” as a mass noun instead of “failure”

Oct-15-08-12:01PM

by Grant Barrett 

1

Figuring out who people are by studying their word choices

Oct-14-08-7:10AM

by Grant Barrett 

1

Buzz factor: Annoyed by catch phrases? Chill out

Oct-12-08-3:37PM

by Grant Barrett 

1

Evangelical or evangelistic?

Oct-12-08-3:33PM

by Grant Barrett 

1

France in shock as dictionary Le Petit Robert relaxes language rules

Oct-12-08-3:25PM

by Grant Barrett 

1

In ‘Sweetie’ and ‘Dear,’ a Hurt for the Elderly: talking to seniors

Oct-10-08-10:59AM

by martha 

9

The collapse of the English language: a satire

Oct-06-08-10:57AM

by Maggie 

3

Book recommended . . . “My Name is ???”

Oct-03-08-8:17AM

by martha 

8

A girl called ‘it’: Choosing the right pronoun for children

Oct-02-08-9:39AM

by EmmettRedd 

4

Saturday Child: One leg at a time

Oct-02-08-8:13AM

by martha 

3

How should media handle coarse language by public figures?

Oct-02-08-7:15AM

by Grant Barrett 

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