“Ever wonder how people really talked in the 1800s, or 1500s, or earlier? “You can stop building the time machine. Such questions are now easier to answer than ever before, with the publication—after 44 years of work—of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. At almost 4,000 pages and about 800,000 meanings, this mind-boggling reference work [...]
Archive for November 7th, 2009
Forty-Four Years in the Making: The World’s First Historical Thesaurus
Posted in Books, Language on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Jew By Any Other Name? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question
Posted in Education, Europe, Jewish Life on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. “Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? “On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in [...]
- The ‘NOT-SO-ROUGH’ Guide Jerry Smolin, Blogger (Northampton, MA & DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY)
NSRG “Twitters” @jerrysmolin
- A Tourist's-Eye View of DUMBO, My NYC Hood: "Offbeat Brooklyn neighborhood offers history, bridge views" http://bit.ly/byawBV 8 hours ago
- Leonard Nimoy’s Portraits Show [Northampton, MA] People’s All-Human Selves http://nyti.ms/bIP2j6 1 day ago
- Frank Rich on ‘Why Has He [Obama] Fallen Short?’ in The New York Review of Books http://bit.ly/bSx3VJ 3 days ago
- Two of my favorite people are getting married today (and one of them is my daughter!!)!! 5 days ago
- Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales http://nyti.ms/97dSdZ 1 week ago
- 2nd best secret in Fulton Ferry: Calexico Mexican food cart on Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park (via @FultonFerry) 1 week ago
- Best kept secret in Fulton Ferry: Lobster rolls from Red Hook Lobster Pound under the tent at Fulton Ferry Landing (via @FultonFerry) 1 week ago
- "Writing is hard — writers say this all the time . . . But it's not nearly as hard, in my experience, as not writing." http://bit.ly/au3MlR 1 week ago
- Writing a book proposal is like writing a college admissions essay except you hope they give you $100,000 (cont) http://tl.gd/2i7d38 1 week ago
- Check out & download HARD TIMES EP w/Alecia Chakour, Darby Wolf & Makaya McCraven http://bit.ly/9Sy3KJ 2 weeks ago
- R.I.P. - New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner Has Died at Age 80 http://es.pn/cp0jgF 2 weeks ago
- R.I.P. - Tuli Kupferberg, Bohemian and Fug, Dies at 86 http://nyti.ms/aqfwrq 2 weeks ago
Archives
Categories
-
Recent Posts
- R.I.P. – Willie Davis (1940-2010)
- R.I.P. – Barry Hannah (1942-2010)
- Travel Photo of the Day: Brooklyn (DUMBO), New York – Literature Versus Traffic
- Conversion Tale: From Skinhead to Skullcap in Poland
- R.I.P. – J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
- Willful Misconduct: The Legal Battle Over Jack Kerouac’s Forged Will
- R.I.P. – Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)
- Sign of the Times: “Arbeit Macht Frei” Sign Over Auschwitz Gate Is Stolen
- Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse, Redux: British Woman Pleads Guilty to Loud Sex
- Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Laredo, Texas Could Be Largest US City Without Bookstore
- Water Under the Bridges: Joshua Derr’s Photographs of DUMBO, Brooklyn
- Write & Wrong: Egypt Supreme Council Demands Return of Rosetta Stone
- Out of the Woods: Collectors Dumping Tiger Woods Memorabilia
- Good News, Bad Muse: Do Bad Moods Make for Better Writing?
- Assaying the Essay: Zadie Smith Asks “Why Do Novelists Write Essays?”
-
Top Posts
- "By the Time We Got to Woodstock": Commemorating Woodstock's 40th Anniversary
- Literary Salons, Here & Gone: Shakespeare and Company (Paris), Gotham Book Mart (New York)
- Fading from View: View-Master 3-D Travel Reels Discontinued
- The Collectors' Collector: Jack Smalling's Autograph Collector's Handbook
- Dead Poets Society: Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Cervantes Share April "Death Day"
- Springtime for Hitler: Hitler, Nazi Relics Fetch Record Prices at Connecticut Auction
- Going, Going, Gone: Mastro Auctions Now "Legendary Auctions"
- Nora's Last Scene: Mabou Mines' Dollhouse Ends Final Run
-
Top Clicks
Blogroll
Books
- A Journey Round My Skull
- ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America)
- BookFinder.com
- Bookforum
- Books, Inq. – The Epilogue
- Bookslut
- Conversational Reading
- GRANTA
- Independent Booksellers of New York City
- Jacket Copy
- Ken Lopez – Bookseller
- One Story
- The Book Cover Archive
- The Book Design Review
- The Jacket Museum
- The New York Review of Books
- The New Yorker Book Blog
Collectors & Collecting
Food & Wine
New York City (incl. Brooklyn, Dumbo)
News, Politics, Opinion
Theatre & Film
Travel
Visual Arts (Painting, Photography)
World Wide Web
-
Blog Stats
- 17,127 hits
Meta
