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Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Because the past is another country, but sometimes you can visit it through pictures: The CARLI Digital Collection, “established in 2006 as a repository for digital content created by member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) or purchased by the consortium for…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
English pronouns are a mess, and there’s no getting around the fact. We’re missing a second-person plural in the standard dialect, which hinders translation into and out of languages that have it.  All the possible alternatives – y’all, youse, yez, yinz and so forth – are strongly marked…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
There are a lot of reasons – ours isn’t a job famous for encouraging a sense of security at the best of times – but this sort of thing is one of them. A middle-school teacher in Maryland has been placed on administrative leave and “taken in for…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
The Scots poet Robert Burns wrote, famously, of being able to look at oneself as an outside observer: O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion… For writers seeking to…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Today’s peeve, for those of you who are collecting the whole set (also for those of you who aren’t; I’m not particular) is orbs. Not the literal ones that are carrying out material functions, such as being part of some monarch’s regalia, and not the non-material ones that…