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OH MY WORD: What’s the Cockney Rhyming Slang for ‘woke’?
May 10 2020
Perth mum Sarah pulling the strings as new Spanish language venture moves online
May 6 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
Fighting talk: Charity highlights importance of language in coronavirus treatment
April 10 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
We are living through momentous times . . . and momentous headlines
March 15 2020
The problem with doing something twice a week is . . .
March 7 2020
OH MY WORD: Why is there such a panic over coronavirus when so many in Scotland die of flu?
March 1 2020
OH MY WORD: We only started saying ‘sorry’ in 1914
February 22 2020
Robbing from a robber has been hijacked
February 16 2020
We already have a word that means ‘centre’. It is: ‘centre’.
February 10 2020
Everyone who loves language has a Mrs Law in their personal history
February 2 2020
OH MY WORD: Nativism, tabula rasa, and toddlers saying ‘me want chocolate’
January 26 2020
It’s a poor writer who needs double dots and little squiggles — but tittles are fine
January 19 2020
Oh my word
January 12 2020
OH MY WORD: The secret of getting people to like you
January 5 2020
OH MY WORD: Do you ever see ‘lo’ unless in ‘lo and behold’?
December 31 2019
OH MY WORD: The terrible English usage problems of Brussels sprouts
December 22 2019
I’ve served 40 years, but I miss the days of the hot metal caseroom
December 15 2019