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    Coming soon to headphones near you... cc

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    Apr 3

    Researching on the fly to bring YOU the best dictionary-related podcast that money cannot buy (because it's free)! Coming soon.

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  3. Mar 7

    Here's a fine example of a nicely detailed etymology

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    Mar 4

    Thank you to everyone who has bought Is English Changing? Somehow it's #34 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Linguistics on Amazon (which might not sound a lot to you, but to me, I'm thrilled).

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  5. Feb 22

    An article from with AHD editor

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  6. Feb 8

    A post about reduplication:

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    Feb 1

    New website launched by Dictionary Society of North America:

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    Jan 31

    I was thinking about the morphology of Spanish “solamente” when I suddenly realized English “only” is essentially “one” + “-ly”. Mind blown.

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    Jan 25

    Our very own , Executive Editor of the , appeared on last night!

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  10. Jan 23

    The revised etymology of kurgan involves Russian, Old Russian, Cuman (a medieval Turkic language of Eastern Europe and Central Asia), Chagatai, Kazakh, and Old Turkic.

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  11. Jan 23

    (The revisions and updates are being pushed to our app soon, too!)

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  12. Jan 23

    Our most recent updates have been pushed to ! More than 1,000 entries have been revised (including many expanded etymologies), and we've added 200 new words and senses. For specifics, read our blog post at

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  13. Jan 12

    Here's another blog post about functional shift!

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  14. 12 Dec 2017

    All about the etymology of latke:

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  15. 7 Dec 2017

    Today's blog post is a link to the recent interview about words and senses added to the American Heritage Dictionary this year.

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  16. 29 Nov 2017

    on the pronunciation of "forte"

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  17. 26 Nov 2017

    Here's the annual end-of-year discussion about newly added words and senses:

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  18. 13 Nov 2017

    The crustacean connection, continued:

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  19. 3 Nov 2017

    Speaking of the of "island," Dhivehi is related to the Sanskrit word for "island."

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  20. 3 Nov 2017

    Island: etymology and Word History note -- how Latin "aqua" is related to "island"

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