Sunday, December 18, 2011

Stocking Stuffers for the Beard Lover

Is anyone else totally unprepared for Christmas?  We haven't even started our shopping yet.  If you're like us and wait until the last minute, here's a list of great gifts for the beard-lover in your life.

Moleskine Journal - $12.00 by fricdementol

Grooming the Beard iPhone case - $35.00 from Society6
"Sea Beard" by David Fleck $10 on Threadless
"Handsome Young Bearded Buck" canvas - $40.00 by utilitarianfranchise

Friday, December 2, 2011

How Well Do You Know Your Facial Hair?

Our friend from Matthew Fisher Photography showed us this link and we had to share.  
Take this quiz and let us know how you did!


Thursday, December 1, 2011

Beard of the Month -- December 2011

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Sir James Murray
And you thought we were going to pick Santa, didn't you?
James Murray was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and worked on it for 36 years until his death.  The full dictionary wasn't complete until thirteen years later, encompassing 12 volumes and containing almost 500,000 words. 
Oh and in case you were wondering how we know this, it's all in an awesome book called The Professor and the Madman. You should read it.


The OED definition of 'beard':
beard, n.
Pronunciation:  /bɪəd/
Forms:  OE–ME beard, (ME bærd, beord, burde), ME–15 berd, (ME–15 berde), ME–15 beerd(e, 15 (Sc. baird, beird), 15–16 bearde, 15– beard.
Etymology:  Common Germanic: Old English beard   ( < earlier *bard  , *bærd  ) = Middle Dutch baert  , Dutch baard  , Old High German, modern German bart  , Old Norse *barðr   retained only in compounds as Langbarðr   (but cognate with barð   neuter, ‘brim, edge, beak, prow,’ whence sense 11 below) < Germanic *bardo-z   (not known in Gothic); cognate with Old Slavonic barda   beard. Kinship to Latin barba   is, on phonetic grounds, doubtful.
1.  The hair that grows upon the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of an adult man's face; now usually excluding the moustache, or hair of the upper lip.

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