Harmless Drudgery

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

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Friday, 28 February 2014

Nunc dimittis

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... or, as they say in the army, 'Dismiss' (The similarity of the two words is no accident .) Dismiss SEEMS to have been the word...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Exegi minimentum

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Report from the word-face Here it is (the paperback; the Kindle version is still available). For today's title I'm recycling ...

Sunday, 23 February 2014

Les ... de ...bourg

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The second proofs of #WVGTbook have been corrected, and I have a spare few hours before a CreateSpace mail arrives in my Inbox and invites m...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

'...in largely predictable contexts'

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In my recent exposure to writing, produced some time ago, I was struck by this (in the EU section; but as that was part of the ELTons submis...

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Hold the presses

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Report from the Word-face A quick sitrep on #WVGTbook. There's good news, bad news, and good news: (Good) I submitted a revised cop...

Monday, 10 February 2014

A silly poor ass

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In Saturday's Times David Aaronovitch reviewed Alain de Botton's The News: A User's Manual He took a rather dim view of it. He...

Thursday, 6 February 2014

Scale drawing

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Two snippets that aren't worth a post on their own but that I don't want to get away: Scale While we were watching cricket duri...

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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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