Adventures in Etymology – Bloggery

About this episode

This episode explores the etymology of blog-related words in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Omniglot Blog.

In this Adventure in Etymology, we’re looking into bloggery and other blog-related words. As this week marks the 20th anniversary, or blogiversary of the Omniglot Blog, which I started on 26th March 2006, I thought I’d explore some blog-related words. Bloggery is the act or practice of writing a blog, or blogging The word blog […]

People in this episode

Host: Simon Ager

Topics covered

• etymology
• blogging
• language
• words
• blog-related terms

Keywords

• bloggery
• blog
• etymology
• language
• blogiversary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Omniglot Blog

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