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Who will defiantly urge us to fight Covid on the beaches?
October 18 2020
To boldly go where many infinitive splitters have gone before
October 11 2020
Isn’t it ooh, isn’t it ahh, isn’t it absolutely the Turner Prize
October 4 2020
As Sir Harold would say: Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters
September 27 2020
Bord na Gaidhlig: MSPs accuse Scottish Government of failing to avert ‘shambles’
September 24 2020
It’s a long, and difficult to pronounce, way to Alyth
September 20 2020
OH MY WORD: I never had any intention of killing my granny
September 13 2020
OH MY WORD: Are children being taught English at school?
September 6 2020
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
Is Gaelic really in the ‘last chance saloon’? Two MSPs on warnings it will die out in 10 years
July 10 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