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Thursday 23 February 2006
Sunday 19 February 2006
Saturday 18 February 2006
Po-boys =/= Subs
Can you tell the difference between po-boys and subs (hint: both are sandwiches)? If not, read this thread on alphadictionary .
Grits = White Polenta
If you're not sure whether what Italians call polenta is the same as what Americans call grits (it is, according to the majority) read this thread on Chocolate & Zucchini
Sunday 12 February 2006
Anglo-Saxon Plant Names
Here's the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey and here's a thread discussing it in soc.hist.medieval
Wednesday 08 February 2006
E-books at Adelaide
ebooks@adelaide from the University of Adelaide Library, a handy source for electronic texts of classics (English and in English translation) which can be used online or downloaded
Tuesday 07 February 2006
Sunday 05 February 2006
The great 16th century Dutch herbal is now available on line!
Rembert Dodoens, Cruyde Boeck (Antwerp, 1563): Digitales Faksimile nach dem Exemplar der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg. Herausgegeben und mit einer Einführung von Thomas Gloning, Lydia Kaiser und Ans Schapendonk (Marburg 2005).
Wednesday 18 January 2006
Etymology online, continued
The American Heritage dictionary online includes separate brief dictionaries of Indo-European and Semitic roots, the former by Calvert Watkins, the latter by John Huehnergard.
Tuesday 10 January 2006
About the author
Everything you want to know (or, at least, everything you need to know) about Andrew Dalby can now be found here. This new page has links to information about each of my books and how to buy them.
Wednesday 04 January 2006
London Library
Here's the redesigned website of the London Library, the lending library unlike any other, founded by Thomas Carlyle.
Tuesday 03 January 2006
Etymology online
A splendid range of etymological dictionaries can be found on line at the Santa Fe University site. I leave that link there, but I wonder if this is just one of the portals that leads to the Indoeuropean languages project: if you use this link instead, you'll find some essential guidance on how to use these slightly rebarbative databases.
And here's a site (in German) devoted to Etymology itself, the study of word origins.
Edited on: Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:16
Categories: Extra (additions to published work), Links
Monday 19 December 2005
Byzantium in 1200
What did Constantinople look like in 1200, just before the Crusaders sacked it? Like this, probably, but with some untidy people around and altogether dirtier.
Sunday 13 November 2005
Scientific Latin names for birds
The big taxonomy websites are not very good on names of birds. Now I've found a better source: Alan P. Peterson, M.D.'s Zoological Nomenclature Resource.
Tuesday 08 November 2005
News from the FOOD WORD site 7 November 2005
The latest IFAQ: What are the saffron buns of our quotation from Carrington?
Archive of previous additions to the FOOD WORD site