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I ran across a reference this morning to the Gothica Bononiensia , a recently (2013-ish) discovered 7th century palimpsest MS of St Augustin...

Has it really been one and a half years since my last post? I guess so. After a six-month leave of absence, I have a new job at a shiny new...

The other day, on BART, I remember this quotation from the Bernstein character in Citizen Kane (1941): A fellow will remember a lot of thi...

In the news currently, Abbottabad, Pakistan, means Abbott’s city. It was named after a British army officer, James Abbott ( link ), three o...

I finally made the decision to replace my half-broken, five year-old mobile phone with a new smartphone. As soon as I get it, I am going to ...

Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury, [ 1810–71] in his A Plea for the Queen’s English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (1881), pp.154–7. ...

Mark Liberman in his wonderful post over on Language Log , “Begging the Question”: We Have Answers , asks, in an aside, Some medieval transl...