2009 Nov 23, 2:20"The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today's maps of the World, Europe, the British Isles and the United States. For instance,
where you would normally expect to see the Sahara indicated, the Atlas gives you "The Tawny One", derived from Arab. es-sahra “the fawn coloured ,desert”."
humor reference map etymology translation atlas geography 2007 Jul 3, 9:25The Language Log folk explain where the 'x Considered Harmful' snowclone came from. Spoiler: Its not Dijkstra.
considered-harmful goto dijkstra etymology language snowclone 2007 Apr 19, 3:41"WordNet is a large lexical database of English... Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept...The resulting
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algorithm collections etymology dictionary visualization xml language ontology tool free 2007 Apr 15, 4:06For the past several months I've seen various articles suggesting why bees are disappearing. At first I thought this was another crackpot's article that somehow made it onto digg.com. But they keep
coming and sometimes from credible sources. After the article I saw tonight I thought I should go back and put together the various articles I've read on this topic. Bees may be disappearing due to
pesticides,
new organic pathogens,
genetically modified crops,
mobile
phones, or
climate change. Apparently,
the US hasn't been keeping accurate counts of its bees so we
don't know the extent of the situation. There's an
interview with Maryann Frazier, M.S., of the Dept. of Etymology at
Penn State and a
congressional hearing on the matter.
I know this is all very serious and could signal the end of our ecosystem as we know it, but I can't help throwing in the following links as well. The bees could be
hiding in this Florida couple's kitchen. Or perhaps they're laying low while being
trained by the government to fight terrorism. Or
they're hiding in extra dimensions that we mere humans can't perceive (I'm fairly certain that's what this
article is suggesting. Really. Read it. Seriously. Its awesome.)
roundup personal bees nontechnical 2006 Dec 27, 2:52'Like Flickr, but without the photos.' Flickr : photos :: Wordie : words. Its kind of funny really. The web is dead. Long live the web.
web2.0 words social language collaboration list lists word english etymology 2005 Apr 9, 9:58Blog on Language Etymology etc
language etymology blog 2005 Apr 9, 6:41Discover the background of your favorite English words
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