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Whenever I take photographs in archives, I find after I get home that some (usually the most important pages) are out of focus and illegible. Am I just a bad photographer or do other people do this too?

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Dorothy E. Marshall is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about her. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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New entry for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction! "mundane", a person lacking supernatural powers. (There are 2 other noun senses.) First in 1977 fr. the first Xanth novel (anything earlier?); also Babylon 5 & a great one from @naominovik.bsky.social. sfdictionary.com/view/2936/mu...

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Would you rather watch sportball or read a long blog post about irregular verbs like "spelt" & "learnt" and their transatlantic differences? (If you don't know why the illustration=small fish, then I think you HAVE to read the blog post.) separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2025/02/ed-v...

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Here's my favourite photo of original OED editor James A. H. Murray. My favourite photo of any lexicographer, probably

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Funny to be quoted in a CNN article reporting research about a place not that far from where I grew up - Harold Godwinson and his estate in Sussex edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/s...

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#Tolkien wrote a wide range of #aalliterative #poetry, ranging from parodies of automobiles and university examinations to epics set in the world of the #Silmarillion. You can find @denniswise.bsky.social 's review of The Collected Poetry of J.R.R. Tolkien here: alliteration.net/current-issue/

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📢 #medievalsky: The #CfP for #TOEBI2025 📜Theme: "Education and Early Medieval England" 📅Date: Saturday, 25th October 2025 🏫 The #TOEBI conference and annual meeting for 2025 will be held at University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social ⏳Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 2nd May

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Happy 141st anniversary of the publication of the first fascicle (A–ANT) of _A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles_, later to be known at the Oxford English #Dictionary (OED).

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James Langfield Ward (1848–1934) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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🤔 #medievalsky are you studying or interested in learning #OldEnglish? 📚💻✍️📹🧑‍🎤We've an overview of courses and exercises, dictionaries, digital editions, databases, blogs, videos, and even music videos just for you! 📲See our Resources page here: toebi.org.uk/resources/

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Delightful serendipitous discovery this afternoon: dictionary-themed lightbox art! (By Alexej Tchernyi, at Grimmwelt, Kassel)

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My first publication of 2025! What with being head of dept, a pandemic, and a cyberattack, it took a long time to get this work into publication, but perhaps the timing is just right as it probably wouldn't have been open-access if I'd published it earlier... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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“Opposite number” by @byagoda.bsky.social notoneoffbritishisms.com/2025/01/20/o...

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This is a bit belated, but the good folks at the OED asked me to write about some of the new words we added this past quarter (so of course I had to write about TTRPG terms, baking, mystery novels, and systems for organizing books): www.oed.com/discover/the...

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Henrietta May Poynter (1851–1932) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about her. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Be sure to join us on at @imc-leeds.bsky.social all day on 10 July for back-to-back sessions on "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century"!

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Missed last week's episode? Watch the replay for behind-the-scenes stories on how the #WordsOfTheYear were chosen to represent 2024. Watch here: bit.ly/ThatWordVideo #ThatWordChat #Lexicography

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Very much looking forward to our @imc-leeds.bsky.social session on rereading and retranslating Old English creatively and collaboratively... #IMC2025

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Keyhole surgery on old books leads to discovery of medieval fragments 📜 phys.org/news/2025-01...

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Welcome to all the new followers! I guess this came from @gretchenmcc.bsky.social's reposting of her linguistics starter pack. If any of you are specifically interested in lexicography, I've got a starter pack for that as well: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Our ad is up on findaphd.com! See the ad here: findaphd.com/phds/program... Knowledge Orders is an innovative collaboration between @kingsartshums.bsky.social and @memsunikent.bsky.social & the deadline for these 6 PhD positions is 27th of February, 2025 (noon). #cfa #phd #komldsp #research #uk

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New Substack post: 'Each' as a floating quantifier basaarts.substack.com/p/each-as-a-...

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Cheering along with the government summary of/response to the consultation on the digitisation and destruction of post-1858 wills now I finally have time to read in full. tl;dr: these vital documents must be retained for numerous excellent reasons 🗃️ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6780fd...

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We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR. Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Now posted: The full list of nominees for ADS Word of the Year 2024. The final vote will be held this evening at 6:45 pm in Salons E-F at Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/nominations-...

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What better for a first bsky post than to share the latest OED update? NPC, stroopwaffel, SCOBY, interrailing and snark added, along with new Japanese and Korean loans, and much revision including "berserk". My pronunciation commentary is near the bottom of this page: www.oed.com/information/...

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I'd be very grateful if anyone on here would be willing to help boost @iasecr.bsky.social! We're trying to put together a network of early career researchers in Arthuriana so do follow/circulate if that sounds interesting to you/people you know (and events to follow soon...)

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Happy birthday, Bruce! 🥳 #OTD 105 years ago, Bruce Mitchell (1920-2010) was born. An expert on the history of English and one of the co-authors of a widely used introduction to Old English. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Colloque – The Karlsruhe Bede in Context: Cod. Aug. Perg. 167 – The Making of a Ninth Century Manuscript rmblf.be/2025/01/08/c...

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Winthrop Sargent (1825–70) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Submit your Word of the Year nomination! The American Dialect Society is collecting nominations for the 2024 Word of the Year ahead of their annual meeting at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, January 9–12, 2025. Learn more and submit your nomination: bit.ly/3CyKqaM #LSA2025

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since I don't think I've shared it here yet, a reminder of one of my all-time favorite #earlymodern archive finds 🐾 🗃️ #catsofacademia

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Ælfric's Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English (Thursday 26 June 2025 - Friday 27 June 2025) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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The Separated by a Common Language UK-to-US Word of the Year 2024 is: FORTNIGHT. With thanks to @helenzaltzman.bsky.social, @byagoda.bsky.social, Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2024/12/uk-t...

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The Separated by a Common Language 2024 US-to-UK Word of the year is: LANDSLIDE It was the Labour win that decided it, but literal use of the word is up too. separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-t...

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George Henry White (1817–89) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Coming soon...

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It's not every day you find a note from Thurneysen stuck inside the front of an ordinary library book...

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Thomas Henderson (1852–1928) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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