Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

  Quo Vadis Hither and Thither sat on a fence Hither said, "We're here," but Thither went thence. Along came Whither, he knew...

I’ll a-to-zed it. There, I’ve said it. It’s surely a better verb to use. Alphabetize Is Greek in disguise I prefer an “English” word to choo...

The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion (Tintern Abbey) I had hesitated over having cataract surgery for a long time. After all, I c...

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...