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5 June 2008
Last published
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The meanings and origins of ‘feck’
/2012/09/12/the-meanings-and-origins-of-feck/
4blogs
That which is restrictive
/2011/10/18/that-which-is-restrictive/
2blogs
Singular they, you, and a ‘senseless way of speaking’
/2013/01/29/singular-they-you-and-a-senseless-way-of-speaking/
2blogs
Book review: ‘Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries’ by Kory Stamper
/2017/03/21/book-review-word-by-word-the-secret-life-of-dictionaries-by-kory-stamper/
2blogs
Apostrophes in business names and place names
/2009/04/02/apostrophes-in-business-names-and-place-names/
1blogs
Oh, the Splices You’ll See!
/2010/04/29/oh-the-splices-youll-see/
1blogs
Joyce, Shaw, Pound and pence
/2010/06/16/joyce-shaw-pound-and-pence/
1blogs
“Snuck” sneaked in
/2010/06/18/snuck-sneaked-in/
1blogs
The enormity of Webster’s Third
/2010/11/04/the-enormity-of-websters-third/
1blogs
Aborting the sexist pronoun
/2010/12/15/aborting-the-sexist-pronoun/
1blogs
Literally centuries of non-literal ‘literally’
/2011/01/31/literally-centuries-of-non-literal-literally/
1blogs
The Typographic Oath for editors
/2011/04/12/the-typographic-oath-for-editors/
1blogs
Different from, different than, different to
/2011/04/20/different-from-different-than-different-to/
1blogs
Five-Line Rhyme Time: A Limerick Contest
/2011/09/12/five-line-rhyme-time-a-limerick-contest/
1blogs
Waterstones’ apostrophe: a victim of rebranding
/2012/01/12/waterstones-apostrophe-a-victim-of-rebranding/
1blogs
How awkwardly to avoid split infinitives
/2012/07/11/how-awkwardly-to-avoid-split-infinitives/
1blogs
Mysteries of Vernacular: animated etymology
/2012/09/19/mysteries-of-vernacular-animated-etymology/
1blogs
Book review: The Old Editor Says, by John McIntyre
/2013/03/26/book-review-the-old-editor-says-by-john-mcintyre/
1blogs
A prison pun
/2013/04/04/a-prison-pun/
1blogs

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