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Category Archives: liberman
Monthly Gleanings: January 2009: Part 2
Anatoly’s second installment of January gleanings. Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, Americanisms, Change, Dictionaries, Internet, Internet language, Lexicography, Oxford Etymologist, Reference, Uncategorized, anatoly, anatoly liberman, buzzwords, disappearing, disappearing words, etmology, family, family names, language, language change, liberman, names, origins, separate, separate words, texting, word, word origins, words
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Monthly Gleanings: January 2009
Anatoly’s January gleanings. Continue reading
A Plug-Ugly Relaxes And Plays Hookey, Or, An Unnoticed Dutch Invasion
Anatoly Liberman looks into the Dutch origins of words. Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, Dutch, German, Lexicography, Oxford Etymologist, Uncategorized, anatoly, anatoly liberman, etymology, hookey, liberman, oed, origins, play, play hookey, plug-ugly, word, word origins, words
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The Tenant’s Dilemma, or, When Did People Begin to Say They for “He (Or She)”?
Anatoly Liberman relates his adventures with plurals.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The Tenant’s Dilemma, or, When Did People Begin to Say They for “He (Or She)”?”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/anatolyliberman-plurals/” }); Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, Lexicography, Oxford Etymologist, Uncategorized, anatoly, anatoly liberman, liberman, noun, person, plurals, tenant, their, them, they
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Shibboleths and Traitors, or, Death and Expulsion as Categories of Historical Phonetics
Anatoly Liberman recounts the times when phonetics were used to determine the death, expulsion or release of a group of people, and takes a closer at the development of homonyms.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Shibboleths and Traitors, or, Death and Expulsion as Categories of Historical Phonetics”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/shibboleths_phonetics_death/” }); Continue reading
Shame and Guilt: Part 2 – Guilt
Anatoly Liberman looks at guilt and shame.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Shame and Guilt: Part 2 – Guilt”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/shame-and-guilt-part-2-guilt/” }); Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, Blog, Etymologist, Lexicography, OUP, Oxford, Oxford Etymologist, Uncategorized, anatoly, anatoly liberman, dictionary, etymology, get, give, guilt, gylt, liberman, shame, yield
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Guilt Societies and Shame Societies, or, Shame and Guilt from an Etymological Point of View, With Some Observations on Sham and Scam Thrown in for Good Measure (Part 1: Shame)
Long ago, after this blog had barely come into being (Spring 2006), I wrote an essay titled “Living in Sin.” It was about the origin of the word sin. Such abstract categories as sin, shame, and guilt develop from thinking about situations in which people realize that they have done something wrong or covered themselves [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Guilt Societies and Shame Societies, or, Shame and Guilt from an Etymological Point of View, With Some Observations on Sham and Scam Thrown in for Good Measure (Part 1: Shame)”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/guilt_shame/” }); Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, Blog, Etymologist, Lexicography, OUP, Oxford, Oxford Etymologist, Uncategorized, anatoly, guilt, liberman, scam, scamu—hama, shame, sin
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Bimonthly Gleanings (July – August 2008)
Anatoly Liberman answers questions.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Bimonthly Gleanings (July – August 2008)”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/08/gleanings-5/” }); Continue reading
Posted in , A-Featured, Blog, Etymologist, Lexicography, OUP, Oxford, Oxford Etymologist, Uncategorized, anatoly, anatoly liberman, animal, blowjob, calls, dictionary, etymology, liberman, particles, particulates, questions, word origins
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Bare or Bear, or, the Story of Berserk
Anatoly Liberman looks at the word “Berserk”.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Bare or Bear, or, the Story of Berserk”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/08/berserk/” }); Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, Blog, Etymologist, Icelandic, Lexicography, OUP, Oxford, Oxford Etymologist, Uncategorized, anatoly, anatoly liberman, berserk, berserks, beserk, liberman, viking
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