Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

Dunnies on the highway 500 miles north of Perth In bogs and dunnies, lavs and loos. Crappers, cans, johns and jakes, A man's got to do w...

Sometimes the comments on an article in the Guardian are as interesting as the article itself. In one that I read recently, they were m...

Happily, the Deaf Old Buggers are still three in number. Recently, one of them was recalling his days at the orphanage in England in t...

I’m only an ordinary bloke And used to think the word “woke” Was just the past tense of a verb, nothing more. But now it’s a new adj...

I hope that I’m not cancelled by the Woke community for expressing this opinion. It’s not just J. K. Rowling or Margaret Atwood or Steven L...

My eleven-year-old granddaughter made my day. “Did you have a  fun time  at the cabin?” someone asked. “I had  lots of fun ,” she repli...

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...