Harmless Drudgery

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

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Thursday, 21 November 2013

Schottland the brave

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A recent blog on the derivation of brave caught my attention about ten days ago, but I was too busy with the ELTons submission at the time...

Monday, 18 November 2013

Confiteor

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... that I don't know where I was when I heard about JFK's assassination. This may come as a surprise to people I've told otherw...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Uneasy lies the head that wears the throne

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Notes from the word face Well, here's the promised 'sitrep' as they say in all the best TV dramas (the ones with guns in, not ...

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Centurion

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And knickers to QI or whoever it was who said a centurion was in charge of 80-odd men. Pah! Next they'll be saying 'decimate' m...

Saturday, 2 November 2013

Apologia pro screw-up sua

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(And apologies for using apologia as if it meant 'apologies'. When Newman used it for Apologia pro Vita Sua it meant something mor...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

bread-winning

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I have been pondering off-and-on about bread-based metaphors. And I want to post some thing on my blog today, as all the footers are now wr...

Monday, 28 October 2013

Like ships in the night

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The Phrase Finder refers, not without a certain scepticism (or do I mean sepsis ? [it being rather poisonous] ), to CANOE – the 'Commit...

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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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