Harmless Drudgery

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

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Thursday, 27 June 2013

'By oak and ash and bitter thorn'

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Jack Orion swore a bloody oath - By oak and ash and bitter thorn Saying 'Lady, I never was in your house Since the day that I was ...

Sunday, 23 June 2013

'Tight about the hips'

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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hip...

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Funny ha-ha or funny sheesh?

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Neither, actually. I have often taught students who treated 'funny' as though it meant 'having the attributes of something chara...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Anglocentrism gone mad

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Today's post is based on an article in The Times a few Saturdays ago, which I can't link to without involving you in the ' To p...

Monday, 17 June 2013

Siete voi qui...?

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This morning's ' Start the Week ' dealt with dystopias (not ' Dis topias ' as I once thought – with an eye on Dante'...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Revenants

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Why not ' The Revenants '? They could even have saved on the Letraset™ and left it as Revenants . Admittedly, it's not a comm...

Friday, 7 June 2013

What's he been up to?

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I see with horror that my last post was last month; I did warn you ( here and here ) that things might go quiet while I got stuck in to IE ...

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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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