Harmless Drudgery

Random thoughts from a wordsmith, budding lexicographer, and 'snapper up of unconsidered trifles'.

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Saturday, 23 February 2013

Gramarly (sic)

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This has just popped up on my screen Notice anything? Well, two things actually. The typo in the header is not corrected. More signi...

Sunday, 17 February 2013

Sez who? Take 2

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Excuse my recent silence. What with the Crystal talk, -EE- words that make the /i:/ sound*, and furniture removals, it's been a busy wee...

Sunday, 10 February 2013

Pot? What pot?

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This is just a little amuse-souris - something I was going to develop and release in the fulness of time (when it would be... erm, fuller)....

Monday, 4 February 2013

It must be true, a SURVEY says so

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The Mail Online (which scarcely deserves a link, but which - if your blood-pressure can take it - you can find by working back from this art...

Thursday, 31 January 2013

O tempora, O more's the pity

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As my schoolfriend, and manager of NATO Unabbreviated (a one- gig wonder), John Mullins* said when I asked him to tell me about a band he ...

Sunday, 27 January 2013

Sez who?

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'Most of What You Think You Know About Grammar is Wrong' This is the sort of lazy cliché that makes my lip curl more ...

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Tearjerker

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In a new production of The Winter's Tale (whose actress was interviewed on this morning's Woman's Hour) , Falstaff's doxy/m...

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@BobKLite: After a misspent youth as an aspiring folk-rock hero and freelance polymath, I became a technical writer in the IT world and then - when I finally ran out of lives, having dodged redundancy for more than 10 years (towards the end of which I coined the word 'sub-Damoclean', to refer to my own position) - a teacher, resource creator, and writer.

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