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  • OED dates its first appearance to 1846.

    April 21, 2009

  • OED: "Applied to verses in which each word contains one syllable more than the one immediately preceding it."

    April 13, 2009

  • Hmmm...why is this not in the OED?

    April 13, 2009

  • I really like Adam Gopnik's review of two new Samuel Johnson books in the New Yorker. The piece is called "Man of Fetters: Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale." (12/8/08)

    December 2, 2008

  • According to Merriam-Webster, Boniface was the innkeeper in "The Beaux' Stratagem" (1707) by George Farquhar.

    November 22, 2008

  • Coined by Yi-fu Tuan, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professor Tuan defines topophilia as "the affective bond between people and place."

    September 1, 2008

  • Coined by Neal Stephenson in the 1992 cyber-punk novel "Snow Crash," the metaverse is a future society fundamentally changed by 3D technologies.

    August 25, 2008

  • another definition: characteristic of or suitable for monumental inscriptions (lapidary phrasing)

    August 25, 2008

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