Separated by a Common Language

On my way home from work, I pass the windowless side of an end-of-terrace house , on which this sign is posted: Such signs are a common sigh...

Last month, Dave Mandl tagged me on this message on Bluesky : I hadn't really reali{s/z}ed it either, till Dave pointed it out. But sure...

Over on Bluesky  last month, I was pulled into a conversation that went something like this: Someone tweets a screenshot of a comment with t...

Harry Enfield, Loadsamoney I belong to  a fantastic international writing group . There, last week, I presented a paragraph that included ...

The first thing that made me want to write about Anglo-Saxon was my experience of French exchange students using the term to mean 'anglo...

When I first moved to the UK, I hungrily watched the (orig. AmE) tv in my sublet apartment/flat   in an attempt to acculturate myself. I ca...