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	World Wide Words - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The time delay allows for newletter subscribers to respond with additional insights and comments, some of which may be included on the posted articles.
		A recurring theme in Quinion's articles is the criticism of folk etymology.
		Such folk etymologies often have the effect of obscuring the true origins of a word or expression by providing a misleading and often unsubstantiated story explaining its origin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Wide_Words (206 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Michael Quinion, in this book that punctures many myths about words and phrases, points out that there is not a shred of evidence for this origin of posh.
		Quinion suggests that the word comes from the London street slang for money and is derived from Romany posh.
		Quinion is of the opinion that the origin is very prosaic: it referred to the charmed period after marriage when love was as sweet as honey but which waned like the moon in roughly the same period of time.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041210/asp/opinion/story_4107036.asp (616 words)

	Wordwizard Clubhouse - the meanings of colours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Michael Quinion’s ‘World Wide Words’ and Evan Morris’ ‘Word Detective’ are two of my favorite word websites (beside ours, of course).
		Quinion sends out a free e-mail newsletter, which I read every week and highly recommend, and Morris updates his website monthly (mostly) with new material.
		And Quinion is a real scholar and very thorough in his research, and his site is usually the first place I look when hunting for good information on a new word or phrase.
	www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14565 (206 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Port Out, Starboard Home
		Michael Quinion has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of New Words (2nd edition), edited the weekly Daily Telegraph new words column, and is author of a dictionary of affixes, Ologies and Isms (OUP).
		In this entertaining and fascinating new book on the origins of words and expressions, Michael Quinion retells the mythic tales that have become popular currency - the word 'posh' deriving from 'port out, starboard home' - and also tries to find and explain the true stories behind the origins of phrases.
		Quinion offers explanations of why and how stories about words are created, and how misunderstanding word origins - while usually harmless - can have serious consequences.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0140515348 (278 words)

	Amazon.ca: Port Out, Starboard Home: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		True, but not new is Quinion's debunk of the myth that HM colonials sailing off to the Raj in India took cabins "port out, starboard home"- to be on the shady side of the ship.
		Though he mentions "polish", Quinion is not up to taking the phrase, rather than the disembodied word, as the circumstances out of which "posh" emerged.
		Hanks is presumably Quinion's source for the claim that Yankie from Dutch Janke "Johnny," is a surname commonest in the Hudson valley, though Janke - Johnny is a forename, not a surname.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140515348 (1165 words)

	Wordwizard Clubhouse - skedaddle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Michael Quinion gave a good summary and so I will save myself some work by providing his comments and then will add some additional points.
		Jonathon Green, in the ‘Cassell Dictionary of Slang,’ suggests this transferred to the US through “the image of blood and corpses being thus ‘spilled and scattered’ on the battlefield before the flight of a demoralised army”.
		Michael Quinion claims above that “it crossed the Atlantic astonishingly quickly “ [from U.S. to Europe], but there are those who say that it was actually born there.
	www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17830 (615 words)

	Quinion.Com Home Page
		is Michael Quinion's renowned site that explores the international English language from a British viewpoint.
		Attended by all runners as well as a large number of running enthusiasts.
		It organises regular ceilidhs, usually one every two or three weeks, as well as a regular programme of workshops, music events, sessions and trips to other festivals and ceilidhs.
	www.quinion.com (267 words)

	City Lights » A dying, but growing, language
		Michael Quinion, the proprietor of World Wide Words, one of my favorite Web sites, reports on a new study called The Future of English?
		According to Quinion’s summary, the report predicts that by 2015, 2 billion people could be learning English as a second language, double the number doing so in 2000.
		Also, the number of native English speakers is expected to decline as a proportion of the world’s population, from about 9 percent now to about 5 percent in 2050.
	www.billingsgazette.com /blog/citylights/index.php?p=733 (271 words)

	Wordsmith.org -- Online Chat with Michael Quinion
		Michael Quinion is the author of Ologies and Isms, A Dictionary of Affixes, and Port Out, Starboard Home And Other Language Myths which is available in the US as Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds.
		Michael Quinion publishes a weekly newsletter called World Wide Words.
		Michael, have you found perfectly contradictory popular etymologies as with the use of 'off the wall' in the US to mean (on the west coast) 'somewhat ridiculous', and to mean (on the east coast) 'really good'?
	www.wordsmith.org /chat/quinion.html (3335 words)

	Amazon.com: Port Out, Starboard Home : And Other Language Myths: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the most vibrant and entertaining of the respected sources is Michael Quinion, researcher and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary and writer on words.
		In Port Out, Starboard Home and Other Language Myths, Quinion reveals the true origins of some well-known words and phrases, as well as the not-so-obvious associations between one common word and another (for example, "barbecue" and "buccaneer").
		Quinion tracks the trail wherever it may lead, and we are happy to follow along.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140515348?v=glance (1585 words)

	City Lights » Until we meet again
		Perhaps only editors, former editors and certifiably insane people will care about this, but Michael Quinion, the language expert who rides herd on one of my favorite Web sites, World Wide Words, addresses the difference between till, until and ’til in a recent entry.
		When I worked as an editor, one of my small crusades was to kill every ’til and replace it with till or until, on the grounds that ’til was based on the mistaken assumption that the word was a shortened version of until.
		In fact, as Quinion explains in his typically masterful style, till is the older word and until a later compound.
	www.billingsgazette.com /blog/citylights/index.php?p=111 (488 words)

	WHEDONesque : Comments on 2091 : Michael Quinion reviews M. Adams' "Slayer Slang" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Michael Quinion reviews M. Adams' "Slayer Slang" and remains sceptical about the show's linguistic merits.
		It seems to me like Michael Quinion and Michael Adams comes from two different viewpoint of pop culture slang that don't mix.
		And, if you ask Michael Adams, (and I have) that's half the battle, that other people understand the slang, even if they don't use it.
	whedonesque.com /?comments=2091 (459 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.1378: Earliest Lexical Blending
		Larry Trask COGS University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH UK larryt@cogs.susx.ac.uk - -------------------- From: "Michael Quinion" Organization: World Wide Words When I was looking into blends for the piece that is archived at < http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/blends.htm >, I found a very few pre-Carrollian examples, of which the oldest one seems to be 'ancedotage' from 1823.
		It is possible that 'bash' may be a blend of 'bang' and 'smash'; 'clash' might derive from 'clang' + 'crash', but it seems older blends may not be well enough recorded to make their origins certain.
		Michael Quinion World Wide Words http://www.quinion.com/words/ - ---------------- From: "J. Katherine Rossner" I don't have reference dictionaries handy, but what about "glisters"?
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/blends78.html (959 words)

	LINGUIST List 7.131: Polari (British Theatrical Language) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As a new member of the LINQUIST list, I was delighted with the helpful response to my query about the language fragment I have now learned is called Polari.
		The consensus seems to be that Polari (also spelled Palare, Palyaree and Palary) is an argot of about 100 words surviving from a corrupted form of the lingua franca of the Mediteranean.
		Michael B. Quinion Thornbury, Bristol, UK Michael Quinion Associates home page :
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/7/7-131.html (456 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| New Words and Phrases to mend! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wordspy is dedicated to lexpionage or "the sleuthing of new words and phrases", and is a must for word freaks, writers, and those who relish the byways and new coinages of the English language.
		via Michael Quinion's World Wide Words newsletter, which also comes highly recommended.
		Michael Quinion of World Wide Word fame, is now doing a column for The Telegraoh.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/1505 (243 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Port Out, Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It's good that Quinion explains some expressions that don't make a lot of sense today, simply because of changes in language.
		Recommended if you are interested in the evolution of language, or are just curious about the origins of some well known expressions.
		Michael Quinion is in the business of dispelling language myths, as well as explaining etymologies and the meaning of common phrases and slang.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140515348 (725 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ologies and Isms: A Dictionary of Word Beginnings and Endings: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Michael Quinion has had a varied career, including BBC studio manager and producer in radio, heritage interpreter, freelance audio-visual scriptwriter and producer, museum curator, tourism consultant, and computer software writer.
		He has been a freelance researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary since 1992, focussing particularly on new words, and is now also a technical consultant for it.
		OLOGIES AND ISMS by Michael Quinion is a must-have dictionary that will help you decipher the prefixes and suffixes of modern English words.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192801236 (623 words)

	Michael Quinion's personal page
		After that he returned to working for himself, writing scripts for exhibitions, taking on a freelance curatorial role, creating audio-visual programmes, and became more closely involved with planning visitor attractions.
		In 1986, with an old friend, Michael Glen, he formed Touchstone Associates, a consultancy business that undertook feasibility studies, tourism planning, visitor facility planning, the development of visitor attractions, scriptwriting, and related work.
		He also wrote a third of the entries for the second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of New Words and for a while compiled a weekly New Words column in the Daily Telegraph.
	www.worldwidewords.org /personal.htm (438 words)

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		Etymologist Michael Quinion says "moot" comes from the same source as "meet," and originally had the same meaning.
		Quinion guesses the mistake is often made because moot is now basically a fossil word, used only in this phrase.
		I would be remiss (or is a man remister?) if I did not bring up moot's appearance in a memorably cheesy pop song of my formative years.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0104/glad_u_asked011504.asp (983 words)

	MediaMusings: Web Snack - World Wide Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The real story of the origin and evolution of a word or phrase is often much stranger than the commonly accepted one.
		The expressions that Michael Quinion reviews range throughout the English-speaking world, from cater-cornered to dinkum and from wet one’s whistle to happy as a clam.
		From the bawdy to the sublime, explanations and delightful asides truly prove that the proof is in the pudding.
	www.marketechnique.com /blog/archives/2005/03/web_snack_world.html (306 words)

	Amazon.com: Ologies and Isms: Word Beginnings and Endings (Oxford Paperback Reference): Books: Michael Quinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This book enables a layman like me to make sense of them, and of many other words in more common usage.
		Michael Quinion's explanations of the word parts (usually prefixes and suffixes, but frequently syllables found in the middle of words) are clearly written, and he provides examples of the most common words using each stem.
		I would estimate that perhaps 80% of the word stems contained in this book are of Greek origin, either directly or as modified by Latin usage.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192801236?v=glance (885 words)

	LINGUIST List 7.75: British Theatrical Language, Yiddish/English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To identify it unambiguously, it is the language which older British listeners will remember being guyed in the radio comedy show "Beyond Our Ken" in which two camp theatrical types say things like "how dolly to vada your eek" and which includes words such as 'palone' for woman, 'lally' for leg and 'riah' for hair.
		--------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael B. Quinion Thornbury, Bristol, UK Michael Quinion Associates home page :
		I am writing on behalf of a student of mine who is interested in documenting the various ways in which Yiddish is present in contemporary English.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/7/7-75.html (295 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ologies and Isms: A Dictionary of Word Beginnings and Endings (Oxford Paperback Reference S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I wish there were enough stars in the universe for Michael Q, October 20, 2003
		His emotional tale of fascism, yummyism, and other -isms is sure to inspire any idiot who has lots of extra time.
		They'll be sure to whisper strange things into your ear while you sleep as revenge.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192801236 (680 words)

	Alibris: Michael Quinion
		The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for wordlovers delightfully skewers commonly accepted word origin myths and etymological "folk tales." The real story of a world or phrase's origin and evolution is often much stranger--and much more humorous--than the commonly accepted one; the many...
		by Quinion, Michael B. see all copies from $4.45!
		We guarantee the condition of every book, new or used.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Michael_Quinion (201 words)

	Michael's Hotlist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Michael Nesmith's Videoranch, This sure ain't the Monkees!
		World Wide Words: Exploring the English Language, Michael Quinion's Language Pages
		Archive of back issues of Michael Quinion's list
	www.wam.umd.edu /~mlhall/hotlist.html (448 words)

	Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds : Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins
		The confusion surrounding the word "kangaroo" caused so much trouble that the Aborigines thought this English word meant any edible animal; they asked whether the cattle being unloaded from ships were kangaroos.
		From the bawdy to the sublime, Quinion's explanations and delightful asides truly prove that the "proof is in the pudding.
		Add this book to your wish list
	www.allbookstores.com /book/1588342190 (175 words)

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