Jane Austen’s Free Indirect Speech
A short explanation of one way that Jane Austen changed literature.
A short explanation of one way that Jane Austen changed literature.
Which words do you mispronounce? Or rather, which words that you mispronounce today will eventually be “correct”?
If you’re reading this, odds are you know the 26 letters in the English alphabet. But do you know how they came to their current forms?
Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated.
Why do some contractions work and others don’t?
Before we launch into 2024, a look back at 2023 in The Scholarly Kitchen.
We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.
Place names tell us all sorts of interesting things about history and people. Also, what is the longest one word place name in the world?
“This library has every book ever published.” A visit to the British Library.
The role of libraries and archives as streaming grows, choice declines, and the death of the red envelopes arrives.
An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress
What else was happening during well known historical events? Where did the fax machine and the Oregon Trail overlap? What about Woolly Mammoths and the Great Pyramids?
What does the timeline of human existence look like when physically laid out to scale? How does that compare to the timeline of the universe?
How well-designed is your state’s flag?
Did your teacher lie to you when they told you that the only vowels were A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y?