Welcome to Litsy!

A very long journey today from the Lakes due to Storm Bertie, thank goodness for the kindle!

Turns out I‘m a philobiblist!! Who knew? You probably are too 😊 Enjoying Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent and learning lots of new words as well!!

Half-term mini-haul: Part 1.

I like this more for it heroic read is how it shows the people involved are from all walks of life, and other parts of the world, where most of them had no expectation of being credited, receiving pay or a reward for their contribution to make the OED.

This is not a perfect read but for me an interesting one.

I'm really enjoying this, I had no idea that so many ordinary people helped to produce the OED 😊

A very interesting narrative nonfiction for #schoolspirit #professor

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#WeirdWordsWednesday

It‘s #WeirdWordWednesday I‘m sharing the cover of the final book in a trilogy today. I‘ve previously shared the covers of the first two books, because the titles are all #WeirdWords, which I hope you all have enjoyed.

I‘m not sure why but I was thinking about the word table this morning and how it can be used as a verb. I thought, “Hmm, I wonder if there‘s a word for when we make a noun a verb.” Sure enough! The rhetorical term is anthimeria. Incidentally, I love the example of “turtling down the road.”
#weirdwordWednesdays #weirdwords @CBee

Light pick. Ogilvie gives voice to a number of the Dictionary People, employees and volunteers who collected words and definitions for the Oxford English Dictionary. I liked the set up of the book—each chapter is a letter of the alphabet and a topic starting with that letter. Some chapters are terrific, and others ramble a bit. This is not a boon to sit and read for hours on end; I found myself reading a chapter or two at a time.