Simon Winchester discusses his book The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Video here: http://ww3.tvo.org/video/177526/simon-winchester-his-book-meaning-everything
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Simon Winchester on his book The Meaning of Everything
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Moon Wiring Club – The Jayston Mix
"Hello? Is there anyone in here that loves me?"
The more Confusing English Electronic Music I hear from Moon Wiring Club, the more fuzzy I feel.
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A Man, A Plan And A Sharpie: ‘The Great Typo Hunt’
Incensed by a "no tresspassing" sign, Jeff Deck launched a cross-country trip to right grammatical wrongs.
He enlisted a friend, Benjamin D. Herson, and together they got to work erasing errant quotation marks, rectifying misspellings and cutting unnecessary possessive apostrophes.
The Great Typo Hunt is the story of their crusade.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129086941