Unfortunately (or not) it's true (as AI says) that AI still fails this basic Turing test.
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Michael Hancher
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Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law.
Just announced: Macaulay and English in India https://www.routledge.com/Macaulay-and-English-in-India/Hancher/p/book/9781032454849
Macaulay and English in India
This book traces how the English language emerged from the nineteenth century as not only an imperial and bureaucratic language but also as a global one. It highlights the role of Thomas Babington Macaulay and his 'Minutes' in this journey and his lasting impact on the English language and English studies. This work recovers the contexts of those interventions and assesses their far-reaching effects in India, in Great Britain, and in the United States. It explores a variety of themes including t
Old Book IllustrationsAnd the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.
John Tenniel, from "The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe," New York: 1858 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/still-sitting/
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.
John Tenniel, from "The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe," New York: 1858 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/still-sitting/
mpls photo botConstruction Workers Lunching in Semi-Demolished Building (1936)
918 6th Ave. N (Fresno Cafe)
Source: Hennepin County Library
918 6th Ave. N (Fresno Cafe)
Source: Hennepin County Library
northeastern mn botTwentieth Avenue west hillside houses, Duluth, Minnesota (1892)
Source: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library
view from second street to St. Louis bay; Rice's Point; houses between eighteen and twentieth avenue west; people
The Victorian WebGertrude Jekyll's #June borders of lupins and Iris at Munstead Wood, Surrey, where she continued her gardening activities well into her 80s (frontispiece to one of her books, published 1912) https://victorianweb.org/art/parks/jekyll/biography.html #gardens #flowers
"Physical books are also being threatened in what used to be their citadel: the library." Aiden and Michel, Uncharted (2014). For details, pro and con, see Duplicate Books, Facsimiles, and Weeds: A Bibliography with Excerpts, for Scholars and Librarians (2021), https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:33963/
New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1888-1928). Recent acquisition by Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (more volumes in another display case). #DSNA25
What Does It All Mean?: Exploring the Dictionary
https://www.btpm.org/community-calendar/event/what-does-it-all-mean-exploring-the-dictionary-29-05-2025-16-18-42
https://www.btpm.org/community-calendar/event/what-does-it-all-mean-exploring-the-dictionary-29-05-2025-16-18-42
What Does It All Mean?: Exploring the Dictionary
What Does It All Mean?: Exploring the Dictionary<br/>On view now until September 30, 2025<br/><br/>Rare Book Room<br/>Central Library in Downtown Buffalo<br/>1 Lafayette Square<br/>Buffalo, NY 14203<br/>See https://www.buffalolib.org/locations-hours/central-downtown-buffalo for hours<br/><br/>The influence of dictionaries is everywhere—whether one knows it or not. More than historic artifacts, dictionaries have transcended beyond the printed book as living documents that help us understand the world around us and establish shared meaning together. The current Rare Book Room exhibition, What Does It All Mean?: Exploring the Dictionary, delves into our relationship with dictionaries in the past, present, and future. Curated in collaboration with members of the Dictionary Society of North America, this exhibition highlights notable English lexicographers of the English language and explores many different types of dictionaries.