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Poetry. Dictionaries. Toronto & Waterloo. http://thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca. Book on modern poetry and etymology from OUP in 2020.
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Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America is taking part in the Project Muse Subscribe to Open pilot, and the subscription threshold has been passed! This means that this year's issues will be fully open-access online at no cost to authors.
February 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America is taking part in the Project Muse Subscribe to Open pilot, and the subscription threshold has been passed! This means that this year's issues will be fully open-access online at no cost to authors.
A dictionary is having a time/tense problem and it's making linguistics Busky anxious.
January 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A dictionary is having a time/tense problem and it's making linguistics Busky anxious.
I've now published v.2 of "Yarrowrhyme, or, Paul Muldoon's Soundprint", a reference guide to the ninety rhymes of Yarrow and twelve other poems". This updated document adds three poems and ~500 lines to the now close to 4,000 (!) expressions of
thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/yarrowrhyme/
thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/yarrowrhyme/
Yarrowrhyme
I’ve completed the first major revision of my 2018 field guide to Paul Muldoon’s “soundprint” [see original post here]. Now with the title “Yarrowrhyme, or, Paul Muldo…
thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca
December 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I've now published v.2 of "Yarrowrhyme, or, Paul Muldoon's Soundprint", a reference guide to the ninety rhymes of Yarrow and twelve other poems". This updated document adds three poems and ~500 lines to the now close to 4,000 (!) expressions of
thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/yarrowrhyme/
thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/yarrowrhyme/
Quick mention of two worthwhile books for the dictionary crowd, and the poetry crowd, and the sexuality crowd.
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Two Dictionary Book Reviews
Just out this month, reviews by me of two smart and interesting books about dictionaries: Craig Dworkin’s Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (review in Dictionaries) and Stephe…
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December 12, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Quick mention of two worthwhile books for the dictionary crowd, and the poetry crowd, and the sexuality crowd.
thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/two-dictiona...
thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/two-dictiona...
1/ Getting ready to update my accounting of Paul Muldoon's yarrowrhyme [/Paul Muldoon's Soundprint thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/paul-muldoon.... My notebook says I should include "The Triumph" (TLS, 2020, then /Howdie-Skelp/) and "Near Izium" (Irish Times, 2022, then /Tagore/) ... Amazing to me that/
Paul Muldoon’s Soundprint
Paul Muldoon’s virtuosity with rhyme is often commented upon by critics (“virtuosity” is a frequent epithet where his rhymes are concerned, as are “bravura”, and ̶…
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November 25, 2024 at 8:21 PM
1/ Getting ready to update my accounting of Paul Muldoon's yarrowrhyme [/Paul Muldoon's Soundprint thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/paul-muldoon.... My notebook says I should include "The Triumph" (TLS, 2020, then /Howdie-Skelp/) and "Near Izium" (Irish Times, 2022, then /Tagore/) ... Amazing to me that/
Now up and running - Unlost: Anne Carson Relational Bibliography v.1.0, listing 3,504 works by, on, and in Anne Carson, categorized by type, crossed-referenced, and annotated with over 1,000 subject tags. Carson fans and scholars, have a look: unlost.uwaterloo.ca
unlost – Anne Carson Relational Bibliography
unlost.uwaterloo.ca
July 31, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Now up and running - Unlost: Anne Carson Relational Bibliography v.1.0, listing 3,504 works by, on, and in Anne Carson, categorized by type, crossed-referenced, and annotated with over 1,000 subject tags. Carson fans and scholars, have a look: unlost.uwaterloo.ca
My student RA built an etymology browser using all of wiktionary: thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/guest-post-e...
Guest Post: Etymological Web
Arbel Groshaus has just wrapped up his Winter 2024 co-op term as an RA at TLOW, working on bibliographies, etymologies, and OED sources. Here he describes a project to build an etymological web to …
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May 3, 2024 at 5:50 PM
My student RA built an etymology browser using all of wiktionary: thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/guest-post-e...
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I had such a fun time talking to the brilliant @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social about Sappho, poetics, sparrows, crushes, spells, and payback.
I talked with the incomparable Emily Wilson (@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social) about the origins of European lyric poetry, the nature of erotic desire, and Sappho’s “Ode to Aphrodite.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Close Readings: Emily Wilson on Sappho (
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March 25, 2024 at 9:18 PM
I had such a fun time talking to the brilliant @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social about Sappho, poetics, sparrows, crushes, spells, and payback.
For my maiden post on ye cyan site, a link to my new article on antedating in the Oxford English Dictionary. In N&Q because people love to do antedatings there. Tagging @jacklynch000.bsky.social and @jessesword.com and @petermgilliver.bsky.social who may have an interest. link: tinyurl.com/yf8bxzee
November 30, 2023 at 10:45 PM
For my maiden post on ye cyan site, a link to my new article on antedating in the Oxford English Dictionary. In N&Q because people love to do antedatings there. Tagging @jacklynch000.bsky.social and @jessesword.com and @petermgilliver.bsky.social who may have an interest. link: tinyurl.com/yf8bxzee