Not content with changing the publishing business, Amazon seems determined to change literature as a whole.
Category Archive: Language
It would be a great tragedy if a major cultural activity of the early 21st century were to pass into oblivion because no-one remembered to collect it properly.
Before the Boston Tea Party, the few precious official copies of Johnson’s dictionary in the American lands were destroyed in commando-style raids, leading to the War of Independence.
Greg Pierce at Agile Tortoise has now released a free OS X dictionary based on WordNet, which effectively brings Terminology to your Mac.
Who could resist the urge to pick this exquisite little book up and browse through its painted pages?
I would never have dreamed that huge numbers of people would propagate an obvious malapropism. But search Twitter, or use any regular search engine like Google, for “hate hippocrates”, and step back in amazement.
The moral is to see a doctor when you have pain in the gut, not to consult a linguist.
This the one book on American English that every English speaker – American, British, Australian, or wherever – should read.
I very seldom post links to news sites, especially those which are full of adverts. However this story […]
The computing sense of crash lacks onomatopœa, is gross hyperbole, and is far too widely encompassing to be meaningful.
The Eclectic Light Company 