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READERS’ LETTERS: Gaelic has major role to play in Scottish communities
March 15 2021
The truth about direction of spin when water goes down the plughole
March 14 2021
ALEX BELL: ‘Morag wants a place to stay’ – but that’s a job for government, not Gaelic Duolingo
March 10 2021
Badly constructed signs are a sign of our times
March 7 2021
I strike a worthy blow in the battle for better grammar
February 28 2021
No one in my book club likes me
February 21 2021
What is a bull in a china shop expected to do?
February 14 2021
Words to be read in the next millennium
February 7 2021
A dyspeptic old pedant’s pernickety points and privatisms
January 31 2021
Things I thought were true that aren’t true
January 24 2021
The shame of admitting my unfair and unreasonable prejudices
January 17 2021
The most surprising thing about tweets, instagrams, and snapchats
January 10 2021
This is the type of preposition argument up with which I will not put
January 3 2021
Miss Peller’s dictionary takes a new look at everyday words
December 27 2020
The use of buzzwords is rising exponentially
December 20 2020
The admirable aims of a Stonehaven son of the manse
December 13 2020
OH MY WORD: It’s the thrupnies and tanners at a scrambly I miss most
December 6 2020
There’s surely no need to call Charlize Theron the name of a fish
November 29 2020
Spikkin Scots: Reclaiming Scotland’s mither tongue
November 25 2020
Spikkin Scots: Listen to the different dialects of Scotland with our interactive map
November 25 2020
Words we grew up with that were almost (but not quite) swear-words
November 22 2020
OH MY WORD: Scots will be speaking in code for the next seven months
November 15 2020
OH MY WORD: Written numbers, like American elections, don’t have rules
November 8 2020
Have you ever wondered what the Alt Gr key on a keyboard is for?
October 31 2020