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A correspondent writes to ask whether he can write advices instead of pieces of advice in a report. Advice is certainly one of those un...

A correspondent writes from the US to ask whether I've encountered the expression ‘a forgiving recipe’. He heard it recently, looked i...

As the situation caused by my family illness is slowly resolving (successfully), I am dipping my toe into the academic water again, albeit t...

A correspondent thinks he hears at all used ‘at the end of every question one is asked nowadays’. He comments: ‘I reckon it is the bad habi...

The correspondents corresponded with vitality yesterday. A 5-minute interview with Jim Naughtie on the Today programme on Radio 4 about my n...

A Northern Irish correspondent writes to say that he had recently been to the USA to visit a friend from his home country, and heard him use...

A correspondent has written to the Shakespeare's Words website to ask how the name of Shakespeare would have been pronounced at the ti...