Friday, June 29, 2007

Voldemort: anagrams and etymologies

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Prompted by a comment from The Cat Bastet to my recent post on Albus Dumbledore , I thought I would take up the anthroponomastic question o...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

New Orisinal Game - “The Crossing”

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Ferry Halim, over at Orisinal Morning Sunshine , has launched a new game (his 59th), called The Crossing — see an image from the game above...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

One Month Online!

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One month and twenty-four posts ago, I brought forth on the Internet a new blog, conceived in philology, and dedicated to the proposition th...
Friday, June 22, 2007

Albus Dumbledore and Gandalf — some thoughts

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It’s no great leap to look for imaginative links between Albus Dumbledore , one-time headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardr...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Proverbs and idiomatic expressions in fantasy

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As we all know, proverbs and figures of speech give language a colorful idiomatic depth. Sometimes their origins are completely lost in the ...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

New reviews at squire’s Encyclopedia Diary

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For those keeping score , I’ve just passed 75 reviews on entries in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment ov...
Monday, June 18, 2007

A henge by any other name ...

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Known among friends and family as a competent amateur etymologist and word-maven, I was recently challenged to explain the origins of the wo...
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Gordon’s Edition of The Pearl

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With thanks to my friend N.E. Brigand and the greater Cleveland library system (and at the prompting of Carl Hostetter ), here’s what the g...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Friday diversion

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I’ve been on the Net longer than many (going on 18 years now), so I’ve already seen a lot of the forwards, chain letters, and viral videos p...
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