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Saturday, August 11, 2007
John Ciardi stitches together the curious origins of two nearly forgotten phrases: the "benefit of clergy," and the "nose stitch..
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
John Ciardi recounts a fascinating story of "history in English words," reconstructing a hypothesized pan-European legend throug..
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Shots with good drift sense don't need stalls on the whiz to lift a score: Thieves' translator John Ciardi takes the listener on..
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Whether you are a pinko, in the pink, or just like a lighter shade of red, John Ciardi will illuminate for you the origins of a ..
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
This week, John Ciardi turns his etymological prowess to Greek mythology, tracing the history of Psaphon's audacious attempt to ..
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
One can trace, as poet/historian John Ciardi does, the word "rhombus" back through its Latin and Greek origins. But to do so wou..
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Thursday, March 8, 2007
In this week's pick from the word garden, etymologist John Ciardi explains how "folk word formations" occur in the least-expecte..
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Saturday, March 3, 2007
In this week's pick from the word garden, etymologist John Ciardi explains how "folk word formations" occur in the least-expecte..
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
"Billion" is, in amateur numerologist John Ciardi's reckoning, "a word that seems to have been born confused." He zeroes in on t..
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
John Ciardi traces the illustrious history of his own last name, from its roots as a German surname through Longbeard detours, t..
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Friday, February 2, 2007
Where does our traditional image of the pirate flag come from, if there is no recorded history of its actual use? John Ciardi do..
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Poet and semantic swordsman John Ciardi resurrects another expression from the vaults of time and memory -- "to fight like Kilke..
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Bacon, or its variants, appears in a number of common British idioms, but none is so important to civil society, apparently, as ..
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Bacon, or its variants, appears in a number of common British idioms, but none is so important to civil society, apparently, as ..
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
The long and storied history of the name "Siwash" is detailed in this installment, from its origins as a French term of not-so-e..
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