Etymonline Online: A New LEXinar

LEX is pleased to announce a new LEXinar this fall featuring Douglas Harper of The Online Etymology Dictionary. Doug and I have enjoyed joint live seminars for the past two years (affectionately known as WordStock I and WordStock II), and now we’re taking our act online.

This Etymology LEXinar will be scheduled for five, 90-minute evening sessions this fall. Our plans look something like this:

Installment I: Etymology~a brief history
Installment 2: Cognates
Installment 3: Historical roots 1
Installment 4: Historical roots 2
Installment 5: A Holler Up The Well

Dates for the inaugural sessions will be finalized and posted shortly, and a registration link will be included on the LEXinar page and on the LEX Facebook page.

Join us and learn more about how to seek and use information in The Online Etymology Dictionary. Practice tracing the pathways of English words back in time, and learn how words are related within English and across languages. And a couple of times along the way, we might even make you laugh.

12 Comments

  1. I hope to be able to participate. I’ll look forward to getting the dates.

  2. Huzzah! Hope I can be there. Marcia J

  3. Peg Hollenback says:

    Cannot wait!

  4. Karen Leopold says:

    Sounds wonderful! Looking forward to getting the dates.

  5. rebeccamarsh says:

    Save me a spot, please. I’ll jump on the registration as soon as you publish dates. :-}

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  6. Peter Bowers says:

    Awesome news!

  7. Gail Venable says:

    Sounds wonderful. I’d love to join. And I think some of the teachers at my school would be wild to know about this if it doesn’t happen to be during school pacific time. Must be hard to set times for your far-flung audience.

  8. Rebecca Loveless says:

    I’m one of those teachers–looking forward to hearing the details!

  9. marymcbride101 says:

    What a wonderful opportunity. I would love to join. As Gail commented, I can not imagine how you will set times for all across the world. I hope you and Doug will do several…I know tons of work but worth it for us! Thanks.

  10. Brett Iimura says:

    I wonder if this is still in the works and possible to join…

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