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After Deadline on the Dictionary
Word nerd alert! The New York Times announces the 50 Most Frequently Looked-up Words of 2010. Check out Philip Corbett’s observations on 50 Fancy Words…
Rain Taxi reviews Wajnryb
One of my favorite Cambridge books I’ve read in the past couple years is Ruth Wajnryb’s You Know What I Mean?. Wajnryb is an Australian language expert who parses the slipperiness of meaning in general.
A Place for “Ruthful”
Ruth Wajnryb is WORDS columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her new book, You Know What I Mean? plumbs the depths of language, and the shifty, slippery meanings of our words. Here, a meditation on her own first name. Although you probably have less reason than some to look up ‘ruth’ in the dictionary, doing [...]
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