Find John Clare’s POEMS CHIEFLY FROM MANUSCRIPT in our library. Edmund Blunden, who edited the volume, writes: For the present volume over two thousand poems by Clare have been considered and compared; of which over two-thirds have not been published.…
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100s of Words for Ice – a “precious knowledge”
“…focus attention on selected aspects of the world as it is taken to be by other cognitive systems, and provide intricate and highly specialised perspectives from which to view them, crucially involving human interests and concerns even in the simplest…
“You make them up? I will never look up a word in the dictionary again!” – In case you thought the dictionary came from God, it was not God, it was an unemployed first year linguist …And how the word F*ck got into Merriam-Webster…
From an interview with Lila Gleitman (professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania; an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children’s learning of their first language): … 19:18: Lila Gleitman: “And you won’t work with me. You will work with –” And…
Joseph Brodsky on the importance of language
New Additions of Literature of the Sacred – Translations of the Bible and the Quran – and The Present State of the Jews (Synagoga Judaica or Juden Schul)
Note the new additions to our library. It is now possible to explore some of the Bible translations that preceded the King Jame Version, which you can also find in our library. (See our earlier post for an example of…
The Quran: English Translations
A number of different translations of the Quran are now available in our library. Compare the top ten most frequently used words (the content word vector) in these three translations: Translated out of Arabick into French. BY THE Sieur du…
Achilles Tatius: The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, Translations 1638 & 1855
Two translations of Achilles Tatius’s The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe are now available in our library. The two translators write very different introductions (see below). The top ten most frequently used words in each translation suggest that the two…
Corinthians 13 – “It is not the object discovered that matters, but the light that falls on it.” – Definitions of Love (Continued)
The OED on the etymology and usage of ‘charity’: Two early types of this word appear in English: (1) cariteð , -teþ , (2) charité ; these are adoptions respectively of Old Northern French caritedh , -tet(þ) , (later, and modern Picard carité ), and the somewhat later central Old French charité (earlier charitet ); which…
An Egyptian Traveller: Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt
Explore the new additions to our library: The true history of the Jacobites of Egypt, Lybia, Nubia by Barbatus, Josephus Abudacnus, was first published in 1675 (go to Books, select the author). It is thought to have been written between…
Concerning Language
A Bit of Fry & Laurie Concerning Language – YouTube