We'll begin this wrap up of last week in Language and culture with a research piece that makes my Word of the Moment work want to curl up in a small ball and weep. Harry McCracken has provided us with a fascinating history of the word “fanboy,” even correcting the published etymologies. It's something that is rarely seen in the internet: original research.
Speaking of etymology, there is a new book, reviewed here by the Boston Globe, that presents a historical view of new English terms.
Finally, from LiveScience, a video report on a National Science Foundation project to preserve and document the the Plains Indian Sign Language. A visual language once used for inter-tribal communication:
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