Nigel Holmes

@nigelholmes.bsky.social

Lexicographer at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... Out now! Special collection of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, ed. by Ezra la Roi and Dalia Pratali Maffei. 🥳 My article on lexical variation between epistula and litterae in the Ciceronian correspondence is available open access 😃

Special collection: Language Change from Above and from Below in Greek and Latin; Guest Editors: Ezra la Roi and Dalia Pratali Maffei

Volume 11, issue 1 of the journal Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics was published in 2025.

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New pope selection coming. I'm rembering a lunch conversation with Catholic colleagues when Cardinal Ratzinger was chosen. This was Munich, and they had strong opinions about him. I said, "There must be something good you can say." Brief, gloomy pause. "He's very old."

A riddle from 1994 (but the answer hasn't changed). I'll post the answer later if nobody guesses. tempus edax rerum? sed et est, qui tempora mandat. legibus hic versis post mortem vivit egetque lustra per omnia adhuc vita, dum crescit in aevum.