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Cromarty may have gone, but now we have Spanglish | Simon Jenkins | Comment...
Cromarty may have gone, but now we have Spanglish | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian. 5 October 2012 Although I don’t always agree with Simon Jenkins, he is usually reliable for measured...
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Languages mapped: what do people speak where you live?
language distribution across central london (image: courtesy the guardian) Languages mapped: what do people speak where you live? | UK news | guardian.co.uk, 30 January 2013Filed under: diversity...
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Some grammer (sic) rules
via A Jug Of Wine, A Loaf Of Bread, And Virtual Thou • Some grammer rules. Never use big words when substituting diminutive alternatives would suffice. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are...
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a way with words he undoubtedly had, but how many of these did he actually coin?
via United We Stand – Divided We Fall | miniprof: adventures-of-a-strange-mind: Phrases…. Shakespeare, we must remember, was especially fluent in the idiom and cliché of late Tudor English, as were his...
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we could add “ghoti” as another, related example…don’t you reckon lewis...
via A Jug Of Wine, A Loaf Of Bread, And Virtual Thou • The group “ough” can be pronounced in eight…. “The group “ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways in English. The following sentence...
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