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I ran across a reference this morning to the Gothica Bononiensia , a recently (2013-ish) discovered 7th century palimpsest MS of St Augustine's de Civitate Dei with the lower script being Gothic ...

http://epea.bisso.com/2019/11/i-ran-across-reference-this-morning-to.html

Has it really been one and a half years since my last post? I guess so. After a six-month leave of absence, I have a new job at a shiny new startup where I’m learning a bunch of new-to-me tech...

http://epea.bisso.com/2013/04/starting-over-again.html

The other day, on BART, I remember this quotation from the Bernstein character in Citizen Kane (1941): > A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd > remember.�...

http://epea.bisso.com/2011/09/other-day-on-bart-i-remember-this.html

In the news currently, Abbottabad, Pakistan, means Abbott’s city. It was named after a British army officer, James Abbott (link ), three of whose brothers were major-generals.

http://epea.bisso.com/2011/05/toponymic-etymology.html

I finally made the decision to replace my half-broken, five year-old mobile phone with a new smartphone. As soon as I get it, I am going to create a new ringtone for it. I’m thinking Cage’s 4...

http://epea.bisso.com/2010/12/devices-for-others.html

Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury, in his A Plea for the Queen’s English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (1881), pp.154–7. (link ), champions the oft-maligned construction it is me from...

http://epea.bisso.com/2010/05/grammatici-ordinis-parvuli.html

Mark Liberman in his wonderful post over on Language Log, “Begging the Question”: We Have Answers , asks, in an aside, Some medieval translator (does anyone know who?) decided to translate Ar...

http://epea.bisso.com/2010/05/petitio-qusiti.html

It turns out that epea pteroenta is one of the one half percent of all Blogger blogs that used FTP publishing to store the files on my own server. This style of publishing is going away on may da...

http://epea.bisso.com/2010/04/this-blog-has-moved-to-new-url.html

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In keeping with all the now-vanished merriment, V. & I found ourselves on Xmas eve standing in line a 1830 hours waiting with the rest of the crowd to be let in to see Avatar in IMAX 3D. We usual...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/12/oel-ngati-kameie.html

Yesterday I joined my friends Krishnan and Sandhya in taking their nephew Balaji (and their daughter Subhadra) on a tour of some of San Francisco’s famous landmarks: the Golden Gate Bridge, For...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/12/dolorous-googling.html

While enjoying a funny entry on Language Log (link ) about a recent story arc thread on the Non Sequitur comic strip, I came across the following in the commentary: > I took a Russian cour...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/12/learning-standard-english-as-second.html

Thanks to Languagehat, I’ve started to read a Greek linguistics blog, Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος (link ) and immediately got caught up in a thread about a rare (Modern Greek) word for th...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/08/floppy-ears.html

Mr Verb posted an entry (link ) about a passage from a book he’s reading, The Stalin Epigram by Robert Littell. > "I overheard a lady mention what the professor was a professor of...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/08/mandelshtam-et-trubetskoj.html

The 20th saw the media frenzied churning over the 40th anniversary of man on the moon (cue the Gil Scott-Heron track, Whitey on the Moon). That set off a long-delayed ruminating nostalgic fugue s...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/07/foregrounding-earwigs.html

Thanks to the blog, Bradshaw of the Future (link ), I’ve come across the wonderfully named Memiyawanzi, also a blog, which is named after a Hittite word. (The stem of this word is memija ‘wor...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/04/la-madelaine-de-saussure.html

The Russian Orthodox Church has its 16th patriarch, Kiril I (né Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev; Wikipedia ; Novinite ). According to the Wikipedia article he is of Erzya-Mordvin ethnic origin. ...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/02/erzjan-kel.html

Cartocacoethes :- a mania, uncontrollable urge, compulsion or itch to see maps everywhere. John Krygier discusses the world’s allegedly oldest map from Çatalhöyük (link ). > The Çatalh�...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/01/mapping-bad-habits.html

Languagehat recently posted about reading Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (link ), and that got me to started wondering about the Berlin dialect. Long post short, I found a Berlinisch Lexikon o...

http://epea.bisso.com/2009/01/ick-bin-ein-lexikon.html

Happy New Year one and all! And for our German friends, Dinner For One, a Silvester treat (link and link ).

http://epea.bisso.com/2008/12/ad-annum-per-gerras.html

Two things about seeing Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York in a Berkeley multiplex cinema yesterday: (1) the small theater in which we saw the movie was furnished with a small number of com...

http://epea.bisso.com/2008/12/be-all-like.html

It’s not like somebody tagged me with the Alphabet Movie Meme (link ), except maybe myself. So here comes the list: Aguirre der Zorn Gottes, Berlin Chamissoplatz, A Cock and Bull Story, The Dra...

http://epea.bisso.com/2008/11/tycho-magnetic-anomaly-one.html

Finally a web-meme I can get into! Over at Mother Tongue Annoyances (a blog) I found the following meme (link ) tacked on to the end of a funny rant on Henry “Dick” Miller: > A simple, t...

http://epea.bisso.com/2008/10/tags-or-elements.html

What is it about words changing their lexical category (or part-of-speech-hood), especially by way of zero morphology, that lights a fire under the tails of word snoots and their ilk? Somebody wa...

http://epea.bisso.com/2008/10/denominal-adjectival-suffices.html

Over at Bradshaw of the Future, goofy has a post about the etymology of butterfly (link ). I looked in a bunch of books and googled about online, and here’s some of the stuff I ran across. The ...

http://epea.bisso.com/2008/10/creamling.html