Fighting Words
Christine Ammer |
Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:45 pm
MHQ lexicographer Christine Ammer highlights terms coined during the Middle Ages
Christine Ammer |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 2:55 pm
The blitz is on! Lingo from war that's found a way into sports.
Christine Ammer |
Published: August 03, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Nautical terms that have crept into common parlance.
Christine Ammer |
Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
The etymology of cliches born of military terminology: "lock, stock, and barrel," "half-cocked," "hanging fire," and more.
Christine Ammer |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:15 pm
MHQ lexicographer, Christine Ammer, considers vivid phrases of military leaders.
Christine Ammer |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:23 pm
The noun tycoon had a quite different meaning during the war. It signified a top leader, and was applied to Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, among others. Christine Ammer has edited encyclopedias and written several dozen wordbooks, including Have a Nice Day—No Problem! A Dictionary of Clichés (1992).
Christine Ammer |
Published: April 22, 2010 at 11:46 am
Although largely eclipsed by more momentous events, the Crimean War left an interesting linguistic legacy.
Christine Ammer |
Published: February 24, 2010 at 10:07 am
MHQ's lexicographer looks at words derived from weapons.
Christine Ammer |
Published: December 02, 2009 at 9:09 pm
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, or WAAC, was established in May 1942 with the assistance of Gen. George C. Marshall (and Pearl Harbor). (U.S. Army)
Our lexicographer considers words
and phrases that developed as
the United States
was engaged in
World …
Published: August 28, 2009 at 6:49 pm
An MHQ reader documents the origin of the word “deadline” at Andersonville during the Civil War.
Christine Ammer |
Published: August 13, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Military history has given us a number of terms related to clothing.
Christine Ammer |
Published: January 20, 2009 at 1:45 am
Library of Congress"The Great War," wrote MHQ founding editor Robert Cowley in his book of the same name, "was the true turning point of the century just past" and created "that greatest of growth industries, violent death." Such cataclysmic …
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