Oxford University Press
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There was a great article all about the history of the word muff on the Oxford University Press website by Anatoly Lieberman, and it's all these different words come from muff — so Danish muff means clown, and Dickens uses muff to mean something like an annoying person or a fool or whatever.
from 528: No Such Thing As A Toilet Haiku, 2024-04-25 at 00:47:36 · read transcript
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You've got people with the Instagram filters that completely distort, you know. It's so nice having a young person here, I must say, to explain this time. I'm the only single person around the table on that, yeah. I read this in the OUP blog, so it's Oxford University Press blog, and there was a whole thing about amazing facts about Byzantine Empire. It is. I'd never heard of this.
No Such Thing As An Ant On Its Gap Year, 2017-10-20 · listen
You would think for someone we knew so much about. It's not a serious debate, though. Oxford University Press recently gave a co-credit to... Who was it? One of the major other playwrights at the time.
No Such Thing As A Shakespeare Burger, 2026-03-19 · listen
My fact this week is that when Samuel Johnson visited Paris, he worried that his French wasn't good enough, so he spent the whole time speaking in Latin. This is Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame. This is from an article. in Oxford University Press, which is more about why elitist politicians such as Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg often drop Latin into their conversations. It's a guy called Gordon Campbell, who is a fellow in Renaissance studies at the University of Leicester.
No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall, 2019-09-06 · listen
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