Our Oxford Word of the Year 2024, brain rot, has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update of additions and revisions.| Oxford University Press
All major English translations in Acts 9:36 completely fail to communicate what the author of Acts is trying to do here: tell his readers that the name 'Tabitha' is a Aramaic word (טַבְיְתָא) that means 'gazelle'. Luke's audiences doesn't want to know that two names correspond in an unknown way. Luke's audience wants to know the meaning of Tabitha...| Koine-Greek
In June and July, I headed to Lingstitute 2023, the LSA summer institute, at UMass Amherst. It was great to get to hang out with old friends and meet lots of new people While I was in Massachusetts, I dropped by the headquarters of Merriam Webster to say hi to the dictionaries and lexicographers! (In… Continue reading June-July 2023: Lingstitute and Merriam-Webster→| Gretchen McCulloch