A literary masterpiece can’t be painted if subtle shades of meaning no longer exist.
August 20 2022
Everyone loses when language becomes a political battleground
August 13 2022
A paean to the English skills of old-fashioned typists
August 6 2022
The bravado of throwing an insult when praise was intended
July 30 2022
Are you a once-in-a-lifetime contributor, a dog with a bone, or a wasp at a picnic?
July 23 2022
I’m experiencing headwinds in trying to understand proactive price consolidation
July 16 2022
My latest book reveals my greatest enemy
July 9 2022
Another rant about ironwork assessors, serials, grates, and blokes who are punching
July 2 2022
I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s son
June 25 2022
I have never felt the need to order a group of clamorous female sheep to be quiet
June 18 2022
You can lead a horse to parliament, but you can’t make him think (and other tortured idioms)
June 11 2022
I offered myself to the world, but no one wanted me
June 4 2022
Grammar is a scary word that no one should be frightened of
May 28 2022
I bet I can get a lower mark in this test than you can
May 14 2022
It’s time for me to take direct action on faulty clutche’s and dirty patio’s
May 7 2022
The, erm, most annoying speech crimes. Know what I mean?
April 30 2022
When I talk in street language, I do it properly
April 23 2022
What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate
April 16 2022
The most surprising and unusual topic a newspaper column has ever addressed
April 9 2022
How many cats have ever caught a bluefin tuna?
April 2 2022
The contractions should’ve, could’ve, and would’ve are crimes against language
March 26 2022
Around the rugged rock the rhotic rascal ran
March 19 2022
Older people have better English skills. And that’s a fact.
March 12 2022
The first casualty, when war comes, is truth
March 5 2022