Once again, the awesome students in my Language and Societies graduate class here at Wayne State have done amazing scholarship this semester. Their research abstracts can be found at the course website of the same name, still running now after 16 years. I’m always proud of my folks, but I think this year they have outdone themselves – I expect to see a bunch of these presented out at conferences, submitted for the various student paper prizes, and (eventually) even in published form.
Comments on the individual abstracts from the community are welcome – the students are finalizing their papers over the next two weeks and at this critical juncture, the support of scholars interested in their areas of study is an important impetus for these early-career scholars.
Glossographia 
I only just found your website after trying to find “Parsoning” in a dictionary. It was in a song When Father Papered the Parlor, 1915 which I always thought was parsonage but definitely is not. It seems to me that 150 definitions are far too few. Would you ever consider a dictionary of archaic words? Just go through every year and find out the words that Webster’s dropped going back to, at least, 1900. I would definitely buy a book like that.