Quick reminder for those who don't know: there's a fantastic, entirely functional alternative search interface replacing the BL's ESTC catalogue: estc.printprobability.org

You know. There are a lot of perverse incentives in academia.

This letter from Henry Neville (1600) appears to include a plot point from Othello (1603). My next project is to organize and clarify these examples.

Today we had the opportunity to look at this extraordinary early leather binding. It originally covered a tax register made in Aphrodito (Egypt) in 716-17, and the inside is lined with papyrus. You can read more about in in this blogpost: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Ditto! 'Usage-based constructionist approaches and Large Language Models' is out: adele.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/…

“Shakespeare did not write his plays.”

Poped: librivox.org/the-iliad-pope…

Remarkable

So important

This is about Henry Neville, the author of Isle of Pines; he was the grandson of Henry Neville who wrote the works of Shakespeare. Someone should write something comparing Isle of Pines with The Tempest.

There was an active rumor that Henry Neville’s father was the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.

It’s not that Chomsky didn’t do important work. The problem was that he brutally subverted diversity in linguistics research. Even if his approach had been the best one, that would have been bad. But it was essentially misguided!

Henry Neville traveled in Europe with Robert Sidney, brother of Philip and Mary. We have records of Neville’s son traveling to Penshurst to visit Robert’s son presumably. Then Algernon, Robert’s grandson, was friends with Henry Neville’s grandson.

It’s been my policy not to get involved in this stuff, and I won’t in the future, but this case was unique. Dennis McCarthy Michael Blanding

One of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read. paul menzer