Oh My Word

All Oh My Word Posts

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A dyspeptic old pedant’s pernickety points and privatisms

January 31 2021

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Things I thought were true that aren’t true

January 24 2021

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The shame of admitting my unfair and unreasonable prejudices

January 17 2021

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The most surprising thing about tweets, instagrams, and snapchats

January 10 2021

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This is the type of preposition argument up with which I will not put

January 3 2021

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Miss Peller’s dictionary takes a new look at everyday words

December 27 2020

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The use of buzzwords is rising exponentially

December 20 2020

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The admirable aims of a Stonehaven son of the manse

December 13 2020

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OH MY WORD: It’s the thrupnies and tanners at a scrambly I miss most

December 6 2020

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There’s surely no need to call Charlize Theron the name of a fish

November 29 2020

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Words we grew up with that were almost (but not quite) swear-words

November 22 2020

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OH MY WORD: Scots will be speaking in code for the next seven months

November 15 2020

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OH MY WORD: Written numbers, like American elections, don’t have rules

November 8 2020

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Have you ever wondered what the Alt Gr key on a keyboard is for?

October 31 2020

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OH MY WORD: Politicians have found a new way to lie to us

October 25 2020

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Who will defiantly urge us to fight Covid on the beaches?

October 18 2020

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To boldly go where many infinitive splitters have gone before

October 11 2020

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Isn’t it ooh, isn’t it ahh, isn’t it absolutely the Turner Prize

October 4 2020

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As Sir Harold would say: Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters

September 27 2020

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It’s a long, and difficult to pronounce, way to Alyth

September 20 2020

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OH MY WORD: I never had any intention of killing my granny

September 13 2020

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OH MY WORD: Are children being taught English at school?

September 6 2020

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It helps if you can spell your own name

August 30 2020

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OH MY WORD: You and I might be friends . . . depending on your view of the Oxford comma

August 23 2020

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Oh my word: A lockdown apology that should have paid attention to a lesson from 1980

August 16 2020

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