Peter Sokolowski
@petersokolowski
Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Will public radio jazz listeners appreciate the Homer-based programming this evening on @nepublicmedia.bsky.social ?
TODAY at 1:30pm at ALA @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social in Chicago!
Greenspan played tenor in Woody Herman's band. The NYT description is a bit like saying, of someone who played for the Yankees, "He always enjoyed playing a bit of catch."
Looking forward to #ALAAC26, the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference in Chicago! #librarians
If the NYT intended a plural here, even in English, it's "grands chateaux."
fwiw, the 'd' and the 's' are completely different from each other in this hand
It's great to be back at the @scrippsbee.bsky.social! This year's dictionary lecture was about the making of the new @merriam-webster.com Collegiate Dictionary, Twelfth Edition.
Yes. The hyphen in the phonetic transcription is the syllable break. The center dot in the respelling is the line break for typesetting.
The semantic overlap in the origins of 'heathen' and 'pagan':
I know he gets dinged for effervescence over depth, but some great playing and swinging. Seek out this one too, Ray Brown's final date:
(Not mentioned by NYT: these pronuncations are given in @merriam-webster.com):
Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones)
OED covers it beautifully. I'm a bit surprised that none of the Merriam Unabridged editions seem to have recorded this.
Quebec French has a nice monosyllable for this that is used in nearly all contexts.
and father of Edward Hardwicke, the best Dr. Watson on film: