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A correspondent writes to draw attention to this sentence: The table was covered with objects, although once he removed the books, he was ab...

There is a book reviewed in today's Guardian called Shakespeare on Toast , and if you look carefully you will see the paper says it is ...

An English teacher from Germany writes to ask: 'Do you hold a speech or give a speech'. He adds: 'I could have sworn it was give...

Philip Holland has sent me a copy of his book Words of the White Peak . The subtitle explains: 'the disappearing dialect of a Derbyshire...

A correspondent writes from Poland about the use of was/were in conditional sentences. He was taught to say If I were , etc., and was advis...

After the Christmas and New Year lull, word queries are back with a vengeance. But I wasn't expecting my first correspondent of the year...

A correspondent to this week's Spectator has just read a book which he thinks demonstrates the true identity of the works of Shakespear...