Michael Hancher

Context-sensitive OCR has been long overdue.

Bailey and after: illustrating meaning Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster share their preeminence in the history of English lexicography with a man now almost forgotten, who usually signed his books simply ‘N. Bailey’. Even in his lifetime...

More pictures at doi.org/10.1080/0266...

The better edition.

Interesting that the remarkably verbose alt text (probably AI-generated) is good at description but not at interpretation.

Daylilies

Lots of red-currant advice at hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.311.... But the two red-currant fool recipes there sound overcomplicated and lacking in whipped cream.

University of Minnesota Press Marks a Century of Success The press, which was founded in July 1925 to publish pamphlets and bulletins, is celebrating its centennial all year as both its scholarly publishing and its trade and regional lists continue to thriv...

Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the birthday wishes! 💯
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Did Void use (already a reach, but better than speak or write) German? (Not that it couldn't.)

At least one demerit to Void for the split infinitive. I asked Google if Wittgenstein split infinitives and AI Overview replied "No, it's highly unlikely" that he did so "intentionally" (at least not “in his philosophical writings"), and explained why not.

"outdated" not at all outdated: books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC NEW SERIES Book History for the Future SERIES EDITORS: Lisa Gitelman, New York University, USA Tom Mole, Durham University, UK Sarah Werner, Independent Researcher, USA Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams. They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative methodologies, digital tools, and global contexts.

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

Megan Fritts @freganmitts.bsky.social‬, "What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee," Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2025 (paywalled), renews
what comp/rhet taught in the '70s: process is more important than product.

Unless the annotations themselves are deemed important.

Minnesota Antiquarian Book Fair A summer book fair for everyone.

This Saturday! Nearly 40 booksellers of the used, old, and rare:

In Minnesota the fall semester for the whole University can’t start until after Labor Day because the State Fair occupies parking lots on the St. Paul campus until then. Convenient for all concerned.

History History of the Department of English.

English since 1885, doctoral English since 1897, MFA English since 1985, Bluesky since 2023 ‪@umnenglish.bsky.social cla.umn.edu/english/abou...

Discover a world of books: In conversation with V. V. Ganeshananthan - Women's Prize

Continuing our celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the #WomensPrize for Fiction, we caught up with our 2024 winner
@sugi.bsky.social, to hear more about #BrotherlessNight, her experience with the #WomensPrize, and what she looks for in a book as a travel companion. Read here: bit.ly/45MNDA6

"Speech-Act Jokes: Prologue and Postscript," an old conference paper. hdl.handle.net/11299/273762

Nice photo. Your copy? Curious rhetoric in the Wikipedia article on K. which is otherwise interesting. His reading Paradise Lost in German translation is quite a concept!

Internet terms in the 1990s; prepositions; English-German dictionaries in the 18rh c.; dictionaries vs. AI; Uniform Meaning Representation annotations; and more.

Also a fine old item at bsky.app/profile/mich...

Part of a great exhibition, “LOCAL ROOTS, GLOBAL REACH: A Century of the University of Minnesota Press, 1925–2025,” Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, June 16–October 3. ‪@uminnpress.bsky.social @noctambulate.bsky.social

Conclusion of eNotes "Expert Answer": " ... reading the poem itself, not relying wholly on a study guide (though study guides can be a useful supplement)."

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Frost might well have read “The Heresy of Paraphrase,” chapter 11 in The Well-Wrought Urn (1947), by one of his interviewers on this occasion.

“I like to say, guardedly, that I could define poetry this way: It is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. That means something in the way the words are curved and all that—the way the words are taken, the way you take the words.” Interviews with Robert Frost (1966), 203.

1963 June, Dublin re Joyce · Jun 17, 1963 – Aug 9, 2011 📸 Shared album · Tap to view!

My #Bloomsday photos, 1963, including 7 Eccles Street (long gone): z.umn.edu/Joyce

A photograph of a young James Clerk Maxwell holding a colour wheel. (Add MS b.52/4)

Scottish physicist and mathematician, James Clerk Maxwell was born #otd in 1831. He is known for his work on electromagnetism, but his interests ranged from colour vision to Saturn’s rings.

He entered Trinity as a student in 1850, later becoming a Fellow and the first Cavendish Professor.

“This book is confined | to the Library”
z.umn.edu/Cobbett

Half a century later this is still my favorite issue of Centrum, including accounts of speech-act theory by Stanley Fish, Martin Steinmann, Jr., Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. D. Hirsch, Kenneth Burke, and Bruce Fraser; also Elizabeth Bruss on manufactured signs. z.umn.edu/Centrum3_2