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Just debunked another oft-repeated claim about one of my book's subjects that's all over academic and popular literature. There's at least one of these per chapter. (This one's a quote. It's attributed to my writer _everywhere_, including in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.)
Y'all: if a slob like me can track down the original source material and check, so can you! I am not that smart/special!
Back to writing/hollering, see you brilliant folks in a few weeks.
Kids and people of the 'Don! I know I'm barely here to begin with, but I'm going to be even more barely here until February. My third book manuscript is due to my publisher then, and I want to make sure it's nice and pretty for them. (And also done.) Happy/merry/etc. until then!
NB: you didn't miss a second book from me; that's in editing right now. DON'T PANIC.
I hope some Chaucerian scholar will do/has done a comparative study between the part in the Wife of Bath's prologue where's she's boasting about how good she is at sex and "W.A.P.", thank you in advance.
I have so many thoughts about this article (https://slate.com/culture/2022/11/scrabble-dictionary-seventh-edition-new-words-merriam-webster.html) and the "death of the American dictionary" narrative, but I think the two most trenchant ones are:
a) the demise of the American dictionary has been happening since the 1980s, so nothing new there, and
b) lexicography is still going to happen even if commercial dictionary publishing in the US dissolves. Plenty of good lexicography _already_ happens outside of commercial dictionary publishing.
