by Linda | Apr 7, 2017 | Authors
F is for Foyle’s and the alliterative sounding word Philavery which completes the book’s title. You won’t find philavery in the Oxford English, Webster’s Collegiate, or any other dictionary that I know of because the mother-in-law of Christopher Foyle, the author,...
by Linda | Apr 6, 2017 | Authors
In “D is for Detective,” I left OED former editor John Simpson’s discussion of the f-word dangling. He titled chapter nine of The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary, “Gxddbov Xxkxzt Pg Ifmk.” I read it right away. Then...
by Linda | Apr 2, 2017 | Authors
Anu Garg, that is. You haven’t heard of him? Well, there are a quarter million word lovers in 200 countries who subscribe to his A-Word-A-Day column (AWAD) which The New York Times calls “the most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass mail in cyberspace.” I...
