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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
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
OH MY WORD: Politicians have found a new way to lie to us
October 25 2020
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
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