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• Curiosities of Literature

  Oct 11 2008:

  Food, guns, sex and money - such are the themes under which Prof Sutherland collects his comfortable miscellany of fascinating literary facts

• People with a Purpose

  Oct 4 2008:

  Review: People with a Purpose by Trevor Barnes
  For the 70th anniversary of Teach Yourself books, this author has leafed patiently through lots of old ones

• I remember Adlestrop

  Sep 29 2008:

  David McKie Reference books may seem austere, but they can brim with charm and personality

• This Septic Isle

  Sep 27 2008:

  Review: This Septic Isle by Mike Barfield
  Barfield has a weakness for awful puns, and is perhaps funniest when most off-topic

• The best place to watch language evolve

  Sep 25 2008:

  Adam O'Riordan: If you don't thumb me like really soon, I'll totally deface you. Watch words take their baby steps at Urban Dictionary

• Call it what you like - it's still a gem

  Sep 20 2008:

  Review: Why Not Catch 21? by Gary Dexter

• Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That

  Sep 14 2008:

  Review: Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That by Harry Mount
  It will succeed in reminding the 'Latin lovers' of its subtitle just how elegant and versatile the language is says James Purdon

• Enter Tynan, to applause ...

  Aug 30 2008:

  Review: Theatre Writings by Kenneth Tynan
  Who wants to read a bunch of theatre reviews, most of them more than 50 years old?

• Paperback of the week

  Aug 24 2008:

  Paperback of the week: Kenneth Tynan selected and edited by Dominic Shellard
  It has been said that Tynan was important because he wrote at such a crucial time for the stage says Susannah Clapp

• Media: Das Wikipedia - online resource goes into print

  Jul 22 2008:

  A published encyclopedia will list in a single volume the 50,000 most commonly searched terms on the German Wikipedia website over the past two years. By Jess Smee

• 'Infinite discovery and delight'

  Jul 14 2008:

  Jeremy Paxman: You may take up a dictionary to settle an argument, but you put it down, much, much later, with a sigh of pleasure

• Win a new edition of the Concise Oxford English dictionary

  Competition, Jul 11 2008: OED has teamed up with guardian.co.uk to give you the chance to win one of eight new editions of the Concise Oxford English dictionary

• The joy of text

  Jul 5 2008:

  Will Self and Lynne Truss on the horrors of text speak and the etiquette of texting

• 2b or not 2b?

  Jul 5 2008:

  Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling

• Look and learn

  Apr 12 2008:

  PD Smith investigates the intricate process of reading as seen through Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid

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