Monthly Archives: July 2024

Unlost: Anne Carson Relational Bibliography

Announcing here thatĀ Unlost: Anne Carson Relational Bibliography is now up and running at unlost.uwaterloo.ca. This is a bibliographical resource listing works by, on, and in Anne Carson. Version 1.0, released this month, lists 3,504 records, categorized by type, crossed-referenced, and tagged with over 1,000 subject headings. The site is intended to grow over time, and […]

Ages of Word Types

Some years ago Marc Alexander published some fascinating treemaps based on the HTOED (see here: https://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/treemaps/) showing how various conceptual domains grew and shrunk their vocabulary over time. Recently someone asked me what OED could tell us about the ages of some specificĀ  trait words in English. The linked spreadsheet gives an answer to that, […]