Harmless Drudgery

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

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Monday, 31 August 2015

Insanae et vanae curae

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In bibliographies quite often the abbreviation ed . appears. I met it often during the work mentioned here , which involved getting inform...

Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Pet rocks and gonks

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The new girl (ducking and covering here ) on Woman‘s Hour last Tuesday, interviewing the co-authors of The Hillary Doctrine ... di...

Monday, 24 August 2015

Latte of this parish

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<gratuitous_pun theme="subject line"> Not that I was ever a habitué of the local church, but when, over five years ago, ...

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Fessing up

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In an old post I said Somewhere – I'm pretty sure it was in Crystal's Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language – I saw an account of ...

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Methinks the Dane doth not protest enough

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The other morning, in a piece about Benedict Cumberbatch, the presenter said that the role of Hamlet had more lines in it than any other...

Monday, 10 August 2015

MRSGREN and the magnolia

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With thanks to Jeffrey Dunn, courtesy of TESconnect In our front garden, much to the regret of MrsK, there is a magnolia. Its natu...

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Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Where there's a muckle...

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...there's brass. Or iron. At each end of the Iron Bridge there is a building. At the far end (from the eponymous town, that is) ...

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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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