Zwicky

Arnold Zwicky has found that nominal request took the place of nominal ask, which first showed up a millennium ago.

Accept the invite « Motivated Grammar 2009

Language Log (in the guise of Arnold Zwicky) alerted me this morning that Wordnik is now up and running.

2009 June « Motivated Grammar 2009

Jan Freeman, the Boston Globe "The Word" columnist, noted how our relatively recent worry about the passive voice has long been linked to issues of gender: Linguist Arnold Zwicky [also at Language Log] found the passive first described as a weakness in US writing handbooks of the 1930s and '40s, in discussion freighted "with images of strength, muscularity, and action (that is, symbolic masculinity)."

Hunting Down the False Passive 2009

Arnold Zwicky has found that nominal request took the place of nominal ask, which first showed up a millennium ago.

2009 July « Motivated Grammar 2009

The linguist Arnold Zwicky has called the most persistent of these "zombie rules": like the two above, they've been shown as bogus in many good usage books, yet still survive thanks to many a provincial schoolmarm.

Grammar Pet Peeves: Who, Whom, None Is Or Are? 2011

Jan Freeman, the Boston Globe "The Word" columnist, noted how our relatively recent worry about the passive voice has long been linked to issues of gender: Linguist Arnold Zwicky [also at Language Log] found the passive first described as a weakness in US writing handbooks of the 1930s and '40s, in discussion freighted "with images of strength, muscularity, and action (that is, symbolic masculinity)."

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

In 1933, the Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky, of the California Institute of Technology, applied the virial theorem to the Coma cluster of galaxies and, using this logic, obtained evidence for unseen mass [ref].

The Language of Science – it’s “just a theory” 2010

In 1933, the Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky, of the California Institute of Technology, applied the virial theorem to the Coma cluster of galaxies and, using this logic, obtained evidence for unseen mass [ref].

Experiments in Non-Relativistic Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) 2010

In 1933, the Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky, of the California Institute of Technology, applied the virial theorem to the Coma cluster of galaxies and, using this logic, obtained evidence for unseen mass [ref].

Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day 2010

Language Log (in the guise of Arnold Zwicky) alerted me this morning that Wordnik is now up and running.

Apparently “the” was in short supply during the Depression « Motivated Grammar 2009