by Clyde T. Linsley, AIW Board Member If you write books, or ever considered writing a book, you have probably followed the stories about the dispute between Macmillan Publishers and Amazon.com. To quote President Kennedy, “I want to say this about that.” The dispute primarily concerns the price that Amazon wanted to apply to ebooks, [...]
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Dig out Some Writing Time During Snowy Stillness
by AIW President Claude Berube Like most people in the Mid-Atlantic, I found that more than two feet of snow blanketed my house and cars yesterday. The Mayor and Governor declared emergencies for the city and state respectively; all cars were ordered to remain off the road. By last night, the storm had passed. The [...]
A Taste of Hiberno-English
by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member If I had ten lives, one of them would be lived as a linguist. Language, phonetics, and the structure of the ways in which people speak their own languages and of how they carry that into English fascinate me. Modern Irish (what the Irish call Irish and others sometimes [...]