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The first step to transforming roughly 200 boxes of correspondence, typescripts, royalties, scrapbooks, photo albums, gin glasses, dioramas, typewriters, and ... Journey to the…
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Dig This Dictionary!
Madeline Kripke was born in 1943, so she lived through the rise of teen culture and teen-directed marketing in real ... Dig This Dictionary! -
It Wasn’t All Greek to Steve A. Demakapoulos
John Florio (1552–1625) was well-positioned to write an Italian–English dictionary. His father Michelangelo, an Italian Protestant (of all things), fled ... It Wasn’t All Greek to… -
The poet and the scholar translate Beowulf
By Edward O’Shea, Emeritus Professor of English, SUNY Oswego, Author: Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey Many readers know Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) ... The poet and the scholar… -
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Early dictionaries were books for readers. Lacking the tools of twenty-first century marketing, early dictionary publishers advertised a forthcoming dictionary ... Advertising…