Harmless Drudgery

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

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Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Schwarzkopf and the harpsichord

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Quirks of a translator's life – sitrep In the course of my translation work (towards the Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translati...

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Knowing when to fold

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I just heard Terry Wogan on Desert Island Discs Revisited using the expression (when talking about ending his career) "I'll fold u...

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

More power to you

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A CXL blog post does what it announces (but I suggest that you don't spend too long there, or prepare to repel "free" offers):...

Monday, 29 April 2019

English tests as part of the 'hostile environment'

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A Guardian article last week quoted Stephen Timms, the Labour MP for East Ham: “Panorama established that a few dozen people cheated, but...

Monday, 22 April 2019

Heaven, I'm in heaven...

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...When we're laid together rotting feet to feet. This rather ghoulish image will be explained in the fullness of time. It's a l...

Tuesday, 9 April 2019

That's that

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I have referred many times to the problems thrown up by the relative adjective/pronoun that . <digression> Incidentally, this rela...

Friday, 29 March 2019

It ain't over...

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... till the fa... (Come to think of it, why did the coiner of that adage assume that prima donnas (whose big song tended to end the sho...

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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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