Over on MetaFilter, beagle posted an appreciation of languagehat's blog, which has been running since 2002; beagle notes that there have been "posts on a daily basis virtually all of those twenty years."
languagehat is one of my favorite members of MetaFilter, and I am always happy to see his name appear as I'm reading threads there.
Somehow I completely failed to know that he had a blog.
It is, unsurprisingly, wonderful.
Recent posts have discussed Patrick Leigh Fermor on German Dialects, the 1970s TV show Wordsmith (also via a MetaFilter post), the etymology of the Russian word Nuel (which means "prone" or "face down"), and the phrase "by the skin of one’s teeth".
I am utterly delighted to know this blog exists, and I've added it to my regular reading list as a good alternative to reading too much depressing news online.
I am most grateful to languagehat (Steve Dodson) for writing these wonderful pieces and sharing them with us.