Harmless Drudgery

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

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Thursday, 28 March 2013

The UK Backlog Authority

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Yesterday's FT reports: Ms May’s decision to bring the organisation – dubbed by some MPs the “UK Backlog Agency” – back under direct...

Friday, 22 March 2013

Tempora obscuratio mea

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The University Arms. The OUP colophon shows just the open book: This post refers to a pair of articles in last Saturday's Times , b...

Friday, 15 March 2013

The War Against Error

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When I first saw the title of If you need to explain why it's wrong... (a blog post) I suspected that it was another case of ellipsis-a...

Saturday, 2 March 2013

The bookcase has landed

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The diary entry Long before the date in 1951 when my mother, whom Saints preserve, wrote in her diary the less-than-flowery 'Rober...

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)....

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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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