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Friday, 18 March 2011
On talking to aliens
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A correspondent writes to ask what my thoughts are on alien languages. So I suppose I should begin this post with Kaltxi - ‘Hello’, or ‘Gre...
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Saturday, 12 March 2011
On
-ish
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A correspondent writes to ask if there are any rules governing the use of -ish in English. He says ‘we tend to add it to short adjectives, ...
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Monday, 28 February 2011
On talking among(st) yourselves
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A correspondent writes from the USA to say he's noticed British English words and phrases increasingly entering public and written disco...
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Sunday, 13 February 2011
On pronouncing Purcell
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A correspondent writes to ask about the pronunciation of two 17th-century names: Henry Purcell and Andrew Marvell. He says: 'In preparat...
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
On caring about libraries
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Several correspondents have been in touch this week about the library crisis that is currently attracting a great deal of attention - not le...
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Wednesday, 5 January 2011
On
built
and
builded
in the KJB
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Two correspondents have written to ask about the use of the verbs built and builded in the King James Bible. Is there a difference of mean...
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Monday, 20 December 2010
On me/my being right
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A correspondent writes about an earlier post headed 'On Shakespeare being Irish', worrying about the grammar rather than the content...
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