Separated by a Common Language

I may have promised another topic for this month's blog...but another request has (orig. AmE) come over the transom , and I'm easily...

A great thing about being Facebook friends with linguists is that I get to benefit from their daily observations of English. Here's a re...

A shorter (maybe), quicker and earlier post this month, since I am going to be travel( l )ing without much internet access in September and ...

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 ...