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15 May 2010
The Secret Life of Your Home
"Words were created or adapted to describe all the new room types: study, bedchamber, privy chamber, closet, oratory (for a place of prayer), parlour, withdrawing chamber and library (in a domestic as opposed to institutional sense) all date from the 14th century or a little earlier. Others followed soon after: gallery, tiring (for attiring) chamber, salon or saloon, apartment, lodgings and suite. One new room, a boudoir, literally "a room to sulk in", was from its earliest days associated with sexual intrigue. It is within these new rooms that our domestic history played out; so let us enter the house and begin our tour."
10 May 2010
A Beautiful Mind
Kate Long's engaging description of her grandfather and how he affected her life.
09 April 2010
Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule change (UPDATE)
So the news reports about proper names being allowed in Scrabble is a beat-up. Apparently, it only applies to a spin-off called Scrabble Trickster.
07 April 2010
Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule change
Nooooo...
17 November 2009
Word of the Year?
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, it's "unfriend".
23 April 2009
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
"April 16 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a little book that is loved and admired throughout American academe. Celebrations, readings, and toasts are being held, and a commemorative edition has been released.
I won't be celebrating.
The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it."
Article in The Chronicle Review