Harmless Drudgery

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

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Saturday, 27 June 2020

Desktop iconoclasm

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<rant> I blame the desktop publishing software ("DTP"). When I was at OUP , many moons ago, all was right ( recto ) with ...

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Saturday, 20 June 2020

Reservio Dogs...

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(a tribute to Google, which helpfully suggested that I might have mis-typed, or to use my own coining, committed a stenoglurch .) Rememb...

Saturday, 13 June 2020

Nabucco

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My choir's latest virtual rehearsal was based on what is known in England as "The chorus of the Hebrew slaves" (so much better...

Friday, 5 June 2020

Brother Lawrence / in the scriptorium / with a quill

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Medieval Cluedo? Yestreen... <gloss> I'm trying to get this charming abbreviation for "yesterday evening" re-adop...

Saturday, 30 May 2020

Bras dessus bras dessous

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In a trail for an Eartha Kitt program I heard once there was a song that I had never heard in the original (although C'est si bon ... ...

Sunday, 24 May 2020

...if it wasn't for those pesky prepositions

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This morning (that is, yesterday morning at time of going to <whatever> , my attention was caught by a charming birthday wish for Ric...

Saturday, 16 May 2020

Weighed in the balance

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The other night I caught, on Radio 3, the last 15-20 minutes (enough to send me back to BBC Sounds to hear the rest) of Belshazzar's Fe...

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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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