English-language verbs ending in "-ish"
This page lists 43 verbs with the ending "-ish." Here they are: abolish, accomplish, admonish, astonish, banish, blandish, blemish, brandish, burnish, cherish, demolish, diminish, distinguish, embellish, establish, extinguish, famish, finish, fish, flourish, furbish, furnish, garnish, impoverish, languish, lavish, nourish, perish, polish, publish, punish, ravish, relinquish, relish, replenish, squish, swish, tarnish, vanish, vanquish, varnish, whish, wish.
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Peter Steinfels, "The Audacity of Claiming the Last Word on This Word," New York Times (Sept. 13, 2008) - on the media's use of word "orthodoxy"
Interesting short piece. Permalink: http://snipr.com/3qo0g
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Peter Steinfels, "The Audacity of Claiming the Last Word on This Word," New York Times (Sept. 13, 2008) - on the media's use of word "orthodoxy"
Interesting short piece.
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Peter K Austin's top 10 endangered languages | Books | guardian.co.uk
This is linguist and historian Peter Austin's personal top-ten list of endangered languages around the world -- kind of an idiosyncratic little column, but interesting.
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ChangeThis :: George Lakoff Manifesto
Seen on melmcbride's Twitter stream.
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Jared Diamond, "The Golden Phonebook," The New York Review of Books (April 13, 2000) (review of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, North Point/FSG)
I don't have access to the full article, but I am bookmarking this because I really want to get hold of it.
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George Lakoff, "Simple Framing," Rockridge Institute (Feb, 14, 2006)
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Bruce Lincoln, "The other war: the one of words," Kansas City Star op-ed (2002)
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Bruce Lincoln, "Words matter," Boston Globe (Sept. 12, 2004) (on George Bush's religious language and American evangelicals)
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Bruce Lincoln, "Bush's God talk: to a born-again theology of individual salvation, Bush has added a providential view of America's role in world history," in Christian Century (Oct. 5, 2004)
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I.B. Singer on Yiddish, via A.Word.A.Day
I.B. Singer is a great writer; here's an excerpt from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, plus, as a bonus, the definition of the word "schnorrer."
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UK educator decries domination of education by management-oriented language
An Oxford professor examines the gradual takeover of all policy writing on education by the language of business management: "efficiency," "providers," "audits," "performance indicators," etc. This kind of thinking, he says, has gradually obscured any leg
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Mise-en-abyme: definition and discussion (fr)
I recently came across someone using this expression in conversation, so I had to look it up.
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WSJ Law Blog word of the day: "Pelf"
Check this out!
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HumanBrainCloud: another fun web time-waster
See a word, type the first word you think of. You're helping to build a big database of word and phrase associations. Kind of fun for about five minutes. Cool idea.
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Origin of the "rule of thumb": not what you think
For years I've been told that the "rule of thumb" originally meant that a man could beat his wife (in 18th-century England) with a rod as thick as his thumb. Turns out this explanation first crops up in the 1970s and has no historical backing.
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