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Last week I finally managed to get to see the amazing Mundolingua - the language museum in Paris founded by Mark Oremland a couple of year...

The Disappearing Dictionary (2015) has just been published in paperback. It was my attempt to celebrate the amazing English Dialect Diction...

It's amazing how a small point (literally) makes the headlines. Last week I gave a talk at the Hay Festival about my book on punctuation...

A correspondent writes - having just watched Ben et al on Philomena Cunk's programme on Shakespeare - to ask why the name sounds so funn...

I really want to head this post 'on multilingual libraries', plural, but I don't know of any others apart from the one I visited...

Messages continue to pour in since the publication of the 'H Quarto' (see the examples following the comments of the first post on t...

I've been really surprised by the number of enquiries I've had over the past day or so asking me to explain what PoD is and how it w...