Congrats to my best bud Klippy, who had his first piece published in the Sunday Reader of the Edmonton Journal. Read it here.

My latest Tribune column:
On the 2nd edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary, which can be held in the palm of your hand.
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From now on, I'll be posting links to my columns at Inflections, a new weblog I'm starting with my idol, Jim Vanden Bosch, and other profs of mine at Calvin.

I'm also pleased to introduce the new Worship Weblog for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, where I work. The blog of my English 101 class is winding down, but there's a lot there to catch up on (hmm, that last clause wouldn't cut it in my class).

And as always, you can kill a lunch break with my post to end all posts, or with these links I'm yanking from the left navbar:

AH Dictionary

ABC/The Note

Calendar

CPL catalog

Calvin/catalog

Chi.Trib/Tempo

CSM/Society

G&M/SSt

GR/Fl-Tracker

History/Today

Language Log

NYT/Idx/WR

Olbermann blog

Planetizen

Prchg.Now

WP/Outlook

Wk/Briefing

World Clock

more

Latest Doings
I'm teaching (some of) the writers of tomorrow in my English 101 course. We have a class weblog up at
http://weblogs.calvin.edu/weblogs?/engl101

I hope to have announcements soon about a weblog for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, where I'm newly employed...

... and the return of Inflections.

In the meantime, enjoy the redesigned website for CICW: www.calvin.edu/worship.

My latest Tribune column:
On the new book Word Origins and How We Know Them.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0503160148mar16,1,3402114.story

Quote I heard and need to retrieve: Kierkegaard said we "tranquilize ourselves with the trivial."

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I felt wimpy earlier this week when a driver wearing a Mennonite bonnet passed me on the highway. I guess I had always equated pacifism with passivity ...

My latest Tribune column:
On the Chipaya, a remote tribe in Bolivia that speaks a unique language.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0503010280mar02,1,6224749.story

(Chipaya is near Oruro, south of LaPaz.)

My latest Tribune column:On a new study that shows that Latin American immigrants to the U.S. prefer English.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0502160039feb16,1,643716.story

More on this study.

This week in my B&C blog:
January news and book review roundup. LINK/ARCHIVE

With this I close the curtain on my B&C blog after two years.

On to Calvin.

My latest Tribune language column:
On the fascinating history of Latin.
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