Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

  We are experiencing a cold spell here in Victoria. Recently, I read that the temperature was going down to minus 20. It wasn’t, of course....

  COVID-19 is not ever likely to be eradicated from the planet. It will become something that we can quite easily live with, like we do an...

I may have solved the “singular they” problem. The problem is that in English we don’t have a singular, non-gendered pronoun. We have “he” o...

What is going through that little head of yours? You  meander in quick time along the way Drawing me hither and thither, following  The sc...

As Winston Smith said with unconscious irony, the best books are those that tell you what you know already, and the same goes for opinion pi...

I’ve railed a lot against ugly words like “fulsome” and “behaviours” and “precarity” and “ incentivize”, so perhaps it’s time to share some ...

I saw a solitary leaf  Blown across the lawn, I gazed i n disbelief, Just one! Its fellow leaves forlorn A mottled heap across the way, A mo...