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RIP Miller Williams. His Patterns of Poetry (1986) is an
RIP Miller Williams. His Patterns of Poetry (1986) is an excellent introduction to forms and has been my guide to the vocabulary of verse. Heres his ...

English, from Middle French, from Late Latin, from Latin, from
English, from Middle French, from Late Latin, from Latin, from *Proto-Italic, from *Proto-Indo-European, a description of transmission of entwined sou...

Some of the early descriptions of proposals to make a self-acting,
Some of the early descriptions of proposals to make a self-acting, mechanical fire-alarm are straight out of Rube Goldberg: Description of a Fire-Ala...

Nov. 10, 1989: The Berlin Wall fell. As though it dropped like a
Nov. 10, 1989: The Berlin Wall fell. As though it dropped like a vacant warehouse or got blown over by the wind. The last East German government, man...

Theres a move to call the recent few thousand years of earth
Theres a move to call the recent few thousand years of earth history the Anthropocene, defined (but vaguely dated) as when human activities had a sign...

Another story The original noun STORY is the one meaning
Another story The original noun STORY is the one meaning connected account or narration of some happening. It dates from early Middle English and ori...

One reason English thrives is its facility at making new forms of
One reason English thrives is its facility at making new forms of words. The same form of a word can be used as a noun, adverb, adjective, or verb. En...

Historical novelists were one of the groups of people I first
Historical novelists were one of the groups of people I first thought might be interested in something like etymonline, and for 14 years theyve dilige...