Harmless Drudgery

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

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Monday, 29 February 2016

Beware the Kalends of March

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It beats me how those early Romans ever got round to writing letters. <autobiographical_note> I remember a Latin lesson given in...

Monday, 22 February 2016

Making whey (with whetstones?)

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Almost a year ago I wrote here about words making way for other words in dictionaries. My use of the evanescent word burgher ... <dig...

Monday, 15 February 2016

Progress with Unity (or was it Nancy?)

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Wordwatch I can date with some precision my first exposure to the horrid " going forward " (in the meaning from now on (which ...

Friday, 12 February 2016

How low can you go?

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A guest on a recent Midweek was Willard Wigan, the maker of very small sculptures. As his website says Willard’s micro-sculptures are n...

Friday, 5 February 2016

Keeping it simple

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Guy Deutscher, in The Unfolding of Language constructs an allegory (typically – read it, it's fun) about people who tried to save the ...

Friday, 29 January 2016

Anything for the weekend?

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Harry S. N. Greene, pathologist, cancer researcher, and Yale professor, when testifying in 1957 to a Congressional committee, disputing an i...

Sunday, 24 January 2016

Shameless plug

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A choral singer knows he's getting on when, as for me this term, the next concert includes three choral pieces all of which he's sun...

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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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