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Monday, April 10, 2006

OneLook

OneLook added Double-Tongued to its catalog of references that can be meta-searched, but just the headwords. (I have a request for a slight typo fix: they spelled it Double-Tongued Word Wrestler instead of Wrester, which is a common-enough error that I’m blasé about it now. Update: Feexed!) (Source Link)

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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang

Oxford University Press has just released the paperback version of my Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang, originally issued in hardback in 2004. James Carville and Mary Matalin wrote the foreword. (Source Link)

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Monday, March 20, 2006

New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

I finally received a copy of the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. It’s a brand-new two-volume dictionary, edited by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, building off the work of Eric Partridge and concentrating on new world-wide Anglophone slang since 1945. At some point in the next few weeks I’ll do a review of it and Jonathon Green’s Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang. This is despite the fact that editors and authors dread—loathe, despise, condemn, resent, and expectorate on—comparison reviews. It won’t be a contest between the books, merely a rumination on their contents and significance.

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Friday, March 17, 2006

Ha-ha

According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, a ha-ha is “a ditch with a wall on its inner side below ground level, forming a boundary to a park or garden without interrupting the view.“ I did not know that.

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Monday, March 06, 2006

The Missing Austin Friars

I have a submission in the March issue of the online-only Lost Magazine. (Source Link)

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