August 4, 2011
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From WCBI: In the decade that Mississippi State classics professor Robert E. Wolverton Sr. has released his survey of ugliest and most beautiful words, he has noticed a trend–fewer religious words. When the survey began, he thought the number of religious words appearing on the survey made sense, since most enrolled at the land-grant university…
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Interesting item from Rome Reports: … there are some photos at La Repubblica as well …
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As long as we’re doing words from the Merriam-Webster folks, this is another very interesting one to sit through, even if the Classical connection is a bit remote:
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Nice little item (from the bottom of my mailbox) from the Merriam-Webster folks:
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I don’t think I mentioned this podcast from the folks at ABC on assorted connections between Jesus and Adonis and the Church of the Nativity: Adonis and Jesus Christ … there’s a transcript available if you don’t have the patience to listen …
rogue classicism 