Michael Hancher
@michaelhancher.bsky.social
Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law. Macaulay and English in India (Routledge, 2026). https://z.umn.edu/M-H.
"For this reason, the concept of a textual source must involve attention to the presentation of a text, not simply to the text as a disembodied group of words." MLA, "Significance of Primary Records" (1995): 27. www.mla.org/content/down...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
"For this reason, the concept of a textual source must involve attention to the presentation of a text, not simply to the text as a disembodied group of words." MLA, "Significance of Primary Records" (1995): 27. www.mla.org/content/down...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Perhaps properly paper is prior.
November 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Perhaps properly paper is prior.
Maybe not the most thorough account, but probably the most entertaining:
A boy at the Hogarth Press / by Richard Kennedy ; illustrated by the author ; with an introduction by Bevis Hillier.
Kennedy, Richard 1910-1989 [author, illustrator]
London : Heinemann [1972]
A boy at the Hogarth Press / by Richard Kennedy ; illustrated by the author ; with an introduction by Bevis Hillier.
Kennedy, Richard 1910-1989 [author, illustrator]
London : Heinemann [1972]
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Maybe not the most thorough account, but probably the most entertaining:
A boy at the Hogarth Press / by Richard Kennedy ; illustrated by the author ; with an introduction by Bevis Hillier.
Kennedy, Richard 1910-1989 [author, illustrator]
London : Heinemann [1972]
A boy at the Hogarth Press / by Richard Kennedy ; illustrated by the author ; with an introduction by Bevis Hillier.
Kennedy, Richard 1910-1989 [author, illustrator]
London : Heinemann [1972]
The OED chart is flat to 1870 -- a full century before the Ngram chart. Why the difference? Supposedly the same data.
November 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The OED chart is flat to 1870 -- a full century before the Ngram chart. Why the difference? Supposedly the same data.
Me too. OED cites 1791. An OED frequency chart, drawing on the same GB database, indicates an inflection point c. 1880. A later chart, drawn mostly from newspapers, shows another one at 2021. Thought-provoking.
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Me too. OED cites 1791. An OED frequency chart, drawing on the same GB database, indicates an inflection point c. 1880. A later chart, drawn mostly from newspapers, shows another one at 2021. Thought-provoking.