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In the spirit of New Year’s Eve, I’d like to share this video for the following reasons:
While the English language is full of words derived from foreign sources, a few foreign words enter the language unchanged. The word zeitgeist is a good example. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it, “The spirit or genius which marks the thought or feeling of a period or age.” It comes from the German words “zeit”, [...]
“Gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right.
Every year the publisher Houghton Mifflin releases volumes in its Best American Series. Even though what’s best is extremely subjective, a few brave guest editors agree to wade in and try and sort out the best of the year.
Many languages, including Latin, make a distinction between the second-person singular and second-person plural. Ancient Greek even distinguishes between singular, dual, and plural.  And yet English doesn’t. When I say “you” I could be speaking to a single person, or I could be speaking to a group. In the Southeastern United States, though, a region often referred to as [...]
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
In ancient Greek culture, and, in some parts of modern Greece, there’s a strong sense of hospitality to complete strangers, particularly foreign strangers. Although the word xenia in English has been used almost exclusively as a botanical term referring to the effect of foreign pollen on a seed, the Oxford English Dictionary does have the word xenial, [...]
If you’re a publisher, listen carefully: do not send anything to a library, or, for that matter, any person that they did not specifically order. I know some merchandise shippers do this sometimes as well, taking advantage especially of older or forgetful customers. Sometimes they even send threatening letters. Working in a library I have [...]
I have an uncle who used to really intimidate me. Maybe “intimidate†is too nice a word. He scared me. He was, and maybe still is, a very dour, serious man who never laughed. He never even smiled. And then, one year, he came to live with us for several months. You can imagine the [...]
A friend who lived in Britain once sent me a card with a picture of a bunch of skeletons working at desks in an office. In the corner a woman with a mop and bucket was lying on the ground, apparently passed out. The caption read, “The old ‘skeleton crew’ wheeze knocks out another cleaning [...] |
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