...did Tolkien write this press release?

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Traditional Christmas reading recommendation

Some students lack biblical literacy. So I remind them: there are the same number of psalms as original Pokemon. 150. Or maybe 151. If you count Mewtwo. All the rest are apocryphal.

how your email finds me

The professor looking at all the finals left to grade

Babe, a Children of Hurin Christmas card just dropped

Let's end the die hard Christmas movie discourse. Green Knight is a true Christmas movie.

LOTS OF LOEBS

Yeah, I'm irreplaceable

A student asked me how to use the DVD they got from the library

My baby is finally getting published! ...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

much better

Footnotepilling and Casaubonmaxxing over here

Almost a perfect summary of my Old Irish book chapter

I personally cannot wait for the AI witch of endor. What could possibly go wrong

It's gonna be hard to top this book on hell, but I tried

I believe that the key to a happier life is to read more books, eat more scones, and use more Oxford commas.

PROOFS TIME got some light re-re-re-reading ahead of me

Sometimes my students just make me real proud 😜. Nothing like a week of final research presentations to spark end of semester joy!

Telling my kids that this is the origin of the phrase "ghosting"

Babe, look, early Christian monasticism is back

Titivillus phishing. No paleographer would fall for this

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"where was Gondor, inc. when my home equity fell?"

You can *almost* always tell when they haven't done the reading.

Eilmer of Malmesbury, the original air friar

Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to. Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/ [Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]

So I was walking around a cemetery this morning with my kids (as one does), and my 6 y.o. suddenly starts giggling and points at this 19th c tombstone

Telling my kids the new Dogman movie is based on the life of St. Christopher from the Nowell codex

Can't wait to give this talk in Bloomington next month!

A haunted house but it's just grading

Move over Donkey Kong and Pokemon ZA. Ready to call "Best game of 2025" right now!

I haven't been on socials much lately...but *delighted* to find out about @dannybate.bsky.social 's new book! I know what I'll be reading for the next week! Also, this will go so well with future versions of my "what is a word?" class

compacting is for trash

Bae, new ROEP dropped 💅 roep.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

PSA for new parents

People say they don't teach real world skills in college anymore. People are wrong. We tried writing in cuneiform yesterday in my "What is a word?" class

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se cyning hylles

okay but do we *need* a gen z Jeeves fanfic

real ones recognize the original sussy baka

Worried my 3 year old is showing symptoms of being proto-Brythonic. His sister is obsessed with kpop demon hunters, yet he keeps calling it "p-pop demon hunter"

Compiling a slang dictionary with students is *always* a good time

Watching a classic with the kids this weekend

Do you ever make a slide and think "the hell is wrong with me?"

BIG DICTIONARY ENERGY Carried some 33lbs of lexicography a half mile to class this morning so students could partake of an ancient activity known as "looking up words" This scholarly body is sore 💪😅

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