How the prediction transpired
Last week I told you a bit about my recent bedtime reading, The Making of English by Henry Bradley. The book was published in 1904, and one of the peculiar delights of reading it more than...
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Riddle me this
My light bedtime reading lately has been from a fascinating little book called The Making of English, by Henry Bradley. Bradley was a mostly self-taught linguist and lexicographer who would eventually become editor of the Oxford...
Twitter & badness
I have an apology to make. It's been called to my attention that for the past several days...
Onomatokœia
The word awkward is rather awkward to type....