It helps if you can spell your own name
August 30 2020
OH MY WORD: You and I might be friends . . . depending on your view of the Oxford comma
August 23 2020
Oh my word: A lockdown apology that should have paid attention to a lesson from 1980
August 16 2020
OH MY WORD: A sign of our times
August 9 2020
One day, our lack of straight talking will be the death of us
August 2 2020
OH MY WORD: Spelling matters, as any fule kno
July 26 2020
OH MY WORD: Any word, any word, any word, is not convincing, not convincing, not convincing
July 19 2020
You will inevitably come to a point in life where you complain about semantic change
July 12 2020
OH MY WORD: What does a butcher’s dog mean to you?
July 5 2020
OH MY WORD: I admire scene-setting descriptive sentence but prefer to keep it short
June 28 2020
It’s a sweeping statement, but if you are old you’re more likely to be right.
June 21 2020
There is only one correct way to organise your cutlery drawer
June 14 2020
Everyone wants to be different and I’m the same, and you can quote me on that
June 7 2020
Shout invective, bray support . . . but surely they could spell Dominic Cummings’ name correctly
May 31 2020
OH MY WORD: I think Donald Trump might be suffering from being a mumpsimus
May 23 2020
OH MY WORD: Are you longing to see your mummy?
May 17 2020
OH MY WORD: What’s the Cockney Rhyming Slang for ‘woke’?
May 10 2020
OH MY WORD: Donald Trump is a very, very clever man
May 3 2020
OH MY WORD: What do you call a man obsessed with four-letter words?
April 26 2020
There’s something missing from the Government’s virus instructions
April 19 2020
OH MY WORD: Furlough went away on leave, but now it will forever summon memories of 2020
April 11 2020
OH MY WORD: I suppose you could TRY to baton down the hatches
April 5 2020
OH MY WORD: There is a way to make every setback into an opportunity
March 29 2020
OH MY WORD: Hilary Mantel is a great author but her punctuation is awful
March 22 2020