While not impossible (Dodgson didn’t die till after the advent of sound recording), I was skeptical when this blog 22 Words claimed to have a recording of “Lewis Carroll reading… [read full post]
The Blog of the LCSNA
Month: January 2011
The Henry Altemus Company’s Alices
The Henry Altemus Company published editions of AAIW and TTLG at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries. A website called www.henryaltemus.com has recently added a… [read full post]
Possibly Lousy Documentary on the Market
This has been out for a year, but it’s the first time it came across our desk. The LCSNA member who forwarded it to us suspected that it was “execrable.”… [read full post]
CNN Linguist cringes at 2010’s portmanteaus
Linguist Robert Beard (the author of The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English, which I’ve heard is a bit prejudiced against the Anglo-Saxon) complains in CNN’s 2010 Year in Review… [read full post]
Occupational Hazard
Congratulations to Rebecca Shawyer, an artist from Cable Bay, New Zealand, for winning the People’s Choice Award at the 2010 Portage Ceramic Awards. Linda Laird reports in the The Northern… [read full post]