Nigel Holmes

Dual citizens: If you're a dual citizen with British or Irish citizenship, you cannot get an ETA. When you travel to the UK you'll need to prove your citizenship using: a valid British passport / a valid Irish passport / another valid passport containing a certificate of entitlement

A quick warning, in case there's anyone like me with dual citizenship planning to get an ETA to travel to Britain. They don't seem to allow that. Here's what the government website (www.gov.uk/eta/when-not...) says:

14 INTERVIEW with Eleanor Dickey Adam Gitner (TLL Lexicographer) interviews Prof. Eleanor Dickey (Reading) about her recent book Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek: A Lexicon and Analysis. Several Latin words are discussed, including a...

Prof. Eleanor Dickey was interviewed by @thesaurosaur.bsky.social about Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek for the TLL Podcast. Check it out below:

www.podbean.com/eas/pb-yqpx8...

It also sounds like "hypnotist". A kind of pun by metathesis.

TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis | TLLCollegium Latin lexicography for your ear: short descriptions of long-lived Latin words.

The Thesaurus linguae Latinae podcasts are mostly about Latin words, and mostly in English. But the latest episode is in German, an interview by Swaantje Otto with Marcus Deufert, mostly about the TLL, but also a little about his work on a new edition of Roman comic fragments: tllpod.podbean.com

The idea of "proficiens" plays a surprisingly large role in the secondary literature on Lucan, where it was supposed to characterise Pompey's portrayal. Surprising, because Lintott had noted in one short paragraph in 1971 that this was based on a 180 degree misreading of Seneca (CQ 21 p. 504-5).

TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis | TLLCollegium Latin lexicography for your ear: short descriptions of long-lived Latin words.

The Thesaurus linguae Latinae has a very intermittent podcast (including a talk by me on "pharus"). The latest entry is by Charles McNamara on "proficio": tllpod.podbean.com

Anthony Boucher had a detective (Fergus O'Breen?) who appears in conventional mysteries and also in fantasy stories.

Cover of fascicle XI.2.12 of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae, reus-robustus.

The latest installment of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae is finally in print. From "reus" to "robustus".

The last sentence reads like it was written in self disgust, after he saw what he'd written in the first sentence.

In recent months, a significant amount of time has been devoted to our database of employees of the MGH since their founding in 1819. We are currently focused on documenting the genesis of our editions. All MGH editors will be included shortly. Have a look!
data.mgh.de/databases/mg...

Anyone had "A Band" yet?

Brad Bird.

Aus unserer Forschung: Der Thesaurus linguae Latinae Der Thesaurus linguae Latinae ist das maßgebliche Wörterbuch des antiken Lateins: Als einziges Lexikon bezieht der Thesaurus alle überlieferten Texte bis ca. 600 n. Chr. ein, umfasst also einen Zeitra...

#Video - Aus unserer Mediathek: Der Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) ist das maßgebliche #Wörterbuch des antiken Lateins. So wird dort gearbeitet:

#Latein #Lexikon #Grundlagenforschung #Akademienprogramm

Common in Miyazaki's films: My neighbour Totoro (tiny truck), Spirited Away (car), Arietty (car). You could include some others, e. g. The Castle of Cagliostro, but the "getting there" portion is a bit more extended.

Oh and "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955)

A Canterbury Tale (1944) sort of counts. The main characters arrive in a Kent village by train and spend the rest of the film in Kent (mostly in the village, but the final scenes in Canterbury).

The Spectator has always had a slightly odd status: a lot of fairly normal conservatives, but also Taki Theodoracopulos (apparently from 1977). It seemed to have some special dispensation to be somewhere writers could publish without embarassment despite his presence.

Diesjährige Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der Summerschool des Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) in der Bibliothek des TLL

Zwei Teilnehmerinnen der Summerschool des Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) im Gespräch

Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der Summerschool des Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) in der Bibliothek der BAdW

Diesjährige Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der Summerschool des Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) und das Team des TLL im Gruppenfoto

Gerade findet in der BAdW die internationale TLL Summer School in Latin Lexicography statt, mit Forschenden in verschiedenen Karrierestufen, deren Arbeit sich mit dem lateinischen Wortschatz der #Antike befasst: thesaurus.badw.de/summerschool...

Fotos: @wolf-bild.bsky.social / BAdW

#Latein

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin. Call for Papers 2025/26

digital-classicist.bbaw.de/cfp

#DigiClass #DigitalHumanities #AncientSky

oblatum? www.google.com/search?udm=3...

Also, if we include lost works, the Emperor Claudius: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrhen...

Anyone mentioned Pollio? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_A...) The history doesn't survive, but it had a big influence on others that did.

SVAL. Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages Towards Third-wave approaches and beyond

Call for Papers: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond

Taking place at the University of Cambridge 26-28 March 2026!

Abstract submission deadline on September 15th.
Full call and further information at svalconference.wordpress.com

Special collection: Language Change from Above and from Below in Greek and Latin; Guest Editors: Ezra la Roi and Dalia Pratali Maffei Volume 11, issue 1 of the journal Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics was published in 2025.

www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
Out now! Special collection of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, ed. by Ezra la Roi and Dalia Pratali Maffei. 🥳
My article on lexical variation between epistula and litterae in the Ciceronian correspondence is available open access 😃

Historischer Flügel: „Man wird fast ein bisschen süchtig nach diesem Klang” Ein Instrument für besondere Konzerte an der LMU: Der Flügel, gebaut von Beethovens Freundin Nanette Streicher, klingt, als würde man ein ganzes Orchester hören. Im Interview spricht Musikwissenschaft...

🎶Ein besonderer Flügel an der LMU: Gebaut von Beethovens Freundin Nanette Streicher, klingt er wie ein ganzes Orchester. Musikwiss. Hartmut Schick spricht mit @lmumuenchen.bsky.social über seine Bedeutung. Prof. Schick leitet das BAdW-Projekt "Richard-Strauss-Gesamtausgabe" tinyurl.com/5n8hptx6

FEMVR: Sólveig Hilmarsdottir | TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis Sólveig Hilmarsdottir (Cambridge University) discusses the complex paradigm of femur (gen. feminis or femoris?), its historical origin, and surprising variation in Latin texts. To consult the TLL arti...

New TLL podcast episode with the talented Sólveig Hilmarsdottir on the complexities of Latin FEMVR!
tllpod.podbean.com/e/femvr-solv...

I still slightly regret losing aw-ry, which was a much more evocative word (in my mind) than a-wry.

Until I was about 18, I had two words in my vocabulary: awry (pronounced awe-ree), describing something subtly and disturbingly wrong, and awry (pronounced a-wry), for something skewed from its proper place. One day it struck me what a coincidence it was that these words were spelt the same.

Now we see if any American tabloid can match the Bild headline, when Ratzinger was made pope: "Wir sind Papst!"