Diversity and Danger - 'The Liberal and the Plural' and 'Clash and Contribution' This symposium hosted in 2009, in association with the Lokahi...
From dictionary user to amateur lexicographer: Possibilities of on-line searches From online dictionaries to Wikipedia: the World Wide Web presents...
After 150 years: The topicality of Roget's Thesaurus The first thesaurus was created by Dr Peter Mark Roget...
The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words...
Christianity and Literature: The paradoxes of R S Thomas R S Thomas had a reputation for writing verse expressing...
Tearing up the ideological maps, and squabbling over the compass Political ideas in Britain at the start of the twenty-first...
Beyond price: Trust me, I’m commercial All markets are based on trust. Confidence is everything. Yet...
A history of the dictionary: Dr Johnson, I presume? Johnson's early life was beset by ill health; his eyesight...
Light from the Orkneys: Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown The Orkneys produced two remarkable 20th century poets, for both...
Misusing Darwin: The Materialist Conspiracy in Evolutionary Biology Scientists sometimes complain about the introduction of religious ideas into...