Harmless Drudgery

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

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Thursday, 22 August 2019

Rules run amuck

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I‘ve mentioned before the way that people learning a language (particularly people acquiring their mother tongue) tend to take a newly-learn...

Monday, 19 August 2019

Zero dark thingy

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The Times last week published a crossword that – self-referentially – aroused cross words. The clue (a somewhat feeble one... <WHOOPS...

Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Magellan not gelling

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The starting point for today's rambling is the quincentennial celebrations of the circumnavigation of the globe, in a voyage that took n...

Thursday, 1 August 2019

On the road (river?)

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See the 6 August update for thoughts about the "upon" This coming weekend representatives of the Wokingham Choral Society (n...

Monday, 29 July 2019

Titanic silliness

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In an early post that dealt with Michael Gove and Nevile Gwynne (guilty of, among other things, Gwynne's Grammar ... <HMMM> [a...

Friday, 19 July 2019

Adeus, João

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The name João has been causing newsreaders and sports commentators the usual problems, because of the success of Mr Sousa at Wimbledon (as ...

Saturday, 29 June 2019

Aspiring to pronounce Phelukwayo

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Teachers of foreign languages know that the last thing you do is write down a word before students have learnt to say it. If they see the ...

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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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