Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

Ever alert to ignorance in high places, such as the Royal Mint’s folly on the ten pound note , the Guardian gleefully noted the apostroph...

Recently, I wrote about a truly ugly word,  fulsome . Here’s another one, a word with a touch of superiority, a whiff of academia about it,...

Alexander Pope One finds eighteenth-century literary devices in unusual places. Recently, I was captivated by a line in a message fro...

A Winnipeg roundabout In my long life, I have found that things happen inside every institution that people on the outside just wouldn...

A set of spanners from Mike Pence's tool box Remember when everyone was moving the markers forward, and ideas had legs? Clichés  co...

Nu to Yu Thrift Store on Pender Island I came upon a new word this morning, well, new to me, anyway, like the clothes at the Pender I...

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! These are the words that appear on the English £10 note that celebrates the a...