I’m excited to let you know that coming up on Thursday I’ll have my debut on the blog of Oxford University Press USA.

OUPblog has many articles weekly on a wide range of subjects but as you might expect there is a lot of overlap with my areas of interest. They have history, lexicography, dictionary and word-a-day categories as well as deep area experts like Anatoly Liberman and Ben Zimmer (both of whom I’ve been fortunate enough to meet and who are wonderful kind people as well as being so smart.)

Podictionary will be the first OUPblog column that’s a podcast (although OUPblog does occasionally post audio already).

Every Thursday the podictionary episode that would have otherwise been published on the podictionary blog will instead be published at OUPblog.

Hopefully OUPblog fans will find something to like in podictionary while podictionary followers will be glad of some of the rich offerings of OUPblog.

Techie Details

The feed URL for the OUPblog column will be

http://blog.oup.com/category/reference/podictionary/feed/

(That URL hasn’t worked for me yet, but I think it’s because the first post hasn’t been published yet.)

By subscribing to that URL as well as the main podictionary feed the podictionary audience don’t have to miss out (both podcast and blog RSS feeds will be supported although subscription by email isn’t offered by OUPblog at this time).

If you don’t know RSS-from-nothing, it’s a way for your computer to check when a website or blog has changed – sort of like your email program checks if there are new messages on the server. Here’s some more info.

Errata is when you correct errors, addenda is when you add stuff in that didn’t make it in time for the printing.

1. A very personal body part that is mentioned on page 185 of the book and called perineal raphe I have recently learned also has another slang name grundle. I’ll let you look those up yourself if you care to.
2. I’ve been having the pleasure of reading a forthcoming book by Ammon Shea, author also of two earlier books Insulting English and Depraved English and in his new work I find the word acnestis. Here is a word that should have made it into my book because it is the word for that place on your back that you just can’t reach to scratch it.