A few weeks ago, I wrote about Amazon having a good price on the Oxford English Dictionary–the world’s largest (and I think safe to say best) dictionary.

Well, today I was checking around and found they have a special Blue Leather edition. And at $6,295.00 it makes the regular edition at $877.10 seem cheap!
Wow. I imagine [...]

I got an advertisement from Oxford University Press with a special sale on the OED.  The Oxford English Dictionary is, well, the mother-of-all-dictionaries. 
Oxford is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the dictionary’s completion. It was started in 1857 and the original 10 volumes was completed in 1928.  It has since grown to 20 volumes [...]

Yesterday, I got in a new book on William F. Buckley Jr.’s use of the English language: Buckley: The Right Word. Compiled by the editor of many of Buckley’s books Samuel S. Vaughan, it examines letters, articles and passages from his books strictly from a linguistic point of view. His use of unusual (but [...]

Over at theJapanesePage.com’s forums, Tony let’s us know the Middle English writer Chaucer is easy. (scroll down a few posts)
I gave him a chance to retract that statement – I mean people think reading Shakespeare or the 19th century revision of the King James Version of the bible is difficult – but he repeated [...]

Yumi bought a book by Supernanny Jo Frost called Supernanny by Jo Frost. Thumbing through it reminded me of a discussion in an English class I had at the university. The topic was about what gender should be used for the third-person singular pronoun when the gender of the people involved is unknown [...]

We’ve been slammed for the past few days. I blinked and here we are already halfway through this week.
Log on to www….
I heard this on the radio the other day and it got me thinking. Do we really log on to websites? In the olden days with dialup BBSes, you would “log [...]

Just a few common sayings that are oddly wrong – if you think about it.
Oddly Wrong: You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Correct: You can’t eat your cake and have it too.
Many people say “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” but why not? I mean, you CAN have your [...]

Upon logging into this site today, I received a notification saying someone actually registered to this site! My subscription base has doubled in one fell swoop!
Quite a big day for this site. This means from now on, a single subscriber can no longer double the number of subscribers. It will take two [...]

We were watching Makoto’s Wiggles DVD (highly recommended BTW) and when mentioning Henry the Octopus’ friends they repeatedly said Octopi as the plural of Octopus. I hadn’t heard that before and since I happened to be reading from the Fowler’s Modern English Usage I decided to turn to the O section, then OC, then [...]