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2010

When thunder rolls, what does air do?original ↗
11 Mar 2010
Link love: language (14)original ↗
9 Mar 2010
Rare “rere” rears its head in Irelandoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2010
National Grammar Day: an outsider’s perspectiveoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2010
Walls of books and waves of ambient guitaroriginal ↗
3 Mar 2010
Houston, we’ve had a probletunity, going forwardoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2010
Knocking the legend of the knocking leg endoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2010
Descriptivism vs. prescriptivism: War is over (if you want it)original ↗
16 Feb 2010
Link love: language (13)original ↗
8 Feb 2010
Flipping the sky into smithereensoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2010
Forums, forum, foraoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2010
A pun to hand in Wonderlandoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2010
Hoover, the ‘talking’ harbour sealoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2010
Irish winterludeoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2010
First impressionsoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2010
Can we break history?original ↗
13 Jan 2010
Link love: language (12)original ↗
9 Jan 2010
Climatic, climacticoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2010

2009

Bits from booksoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2009
Plain English and Golden Bullsoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2009
Garden of Omnifarious Delightsoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2009
Astronished: postcard art for the Hunt Museumoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2009
Link love: language (11)original ↗
25 Nov 2009
Finding a folly euphonicoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2009
Do Profanity Filters Dream of Philip K. Dick?original ↗
10 Nov 2009
Autumn leaves for winteroriginal ↗
4 Nov 2009
How awesome is awesome?original ↗
29 Oct 2009
A typo more mysterious that mostoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2009
Link love: language (10)original ↗
16 Oct 2009
Blather and blarney and blindfolding the deviloriginal ↗
14 Oct 2009
In praise of cormorantsoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2009
Hear ye this here: Hear! Hear!original ↗
7 Oct 2009
A violent ambiguityoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2009
Crash blossoms up the garden pathoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2009
Link love: language (9)original ↗
22 Sept 2009
Don’t razz me, brooriginal ↗
21 Sept 2009
Introducing the apostrophantomoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2009
No one, no-one, nobody, no nooneoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2009
The power of understatement compels you!original ↗
10 Sept 2009
Link love: language (8)original ↗
6 Sept 2009
Artful thingsoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2009
Crisis = clanger + hypothesisoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2009
A culchie joins Culch.ieoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2009
Five-typo feast of failoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2009
Up from out of in under fororiginal ↗
25 Aug 2009
It’s all cut up. Uh huh huh.original ↗
21 Aug 2009
Link love: language (7)original ↗
19 Aug 2009
Visa check, Visa check, check-in manoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2009
“Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstoodoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2009
Stationary stationeryoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2009
Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single lettersoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2009
Your cooperation in reading this blog post is requestedoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2009
Banana bread-cakeoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2009
Link love: language (6)original ↗
31 Jul 2009
Orient or orientate? Either, but…original ↗
28 Jul 2009
The Cannibals of Galwayoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2009
Their puzzling devoutnessoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2009
Swanlike boat, boatlike swanoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2009
Link love: language (5)original ↗
18 Jul 2009
Unnatural ‘preternaturally’, naturallyoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2009
No discernible circumferenceoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2009
Moonwalking into the second dimensionoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2009
Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedraloriginal ↗
3 Jul 2009
Attack of the 100 Foot Tissueoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2009
Historic, historical: usage and adviceoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2009
Link love: language (4)original ↗
18 Jun 2009
Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxiesoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2009
7 day indoor market opening soon further info contactoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2009
When I find myself in terms of troubleoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2009
Good adviceoriginal ↗
31 May 2009
Secure broadband connection not guaranteedoriginal ↗
28 May 2009
Scattered thoughtsoriginal ↗
28 May 2009
Peddling while pedallingoriginal ↗
24 May 2009
Link love: language (3)original ↗
21 May 2009
On the rampant misuse of quotation marksoriginal ↗
20 May 2009
Read ’em and write ’emoriginal ↗
19 May 2009
Seagull semioticsoriginal ↗
15 May 2009
Whitehead and the modern wordoriginal ↗
15 May 2009
The curious land of the ampersandoriginal ↗
13 May 2009
Data is data, or are they?original ↗
7 May 2009
Mis-educational toysoriginal ↗
5 May 2009
Concrete poetry: Wave/rockoriginal ↗
4 May 2009
The atomic theory of sub-headingsoriginal ↗
1 May 2009
Back-forming back-formationsoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2009
The love life of pigeonsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2009
Not only . . . but (also) . . .original ↗
22 Apr 2009
Link love: language (2)original ↗
20 Apr 2009
Gelett Burgess and the blurboriginal ↗
14 Apr 2009
Wordle: two’s company, three’s a cloudoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2009
À la carte, à la, Aloriginal ↗
8 Apr 2009
Distinguishing between ‘principal’ and ‘principle’original ↗
6 Apr 2009
Link love: jazzoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2009
Apostrophes in business names and place namesoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2009
In praise of a reference book: MWDEUoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2009
Saints, censors and satireoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2009
Information is always everywhereoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2009
Nouns of multitudeoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2009
Ducks, dragons, and dictionariesoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2009
Spamwatchoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2009
Jargon and the economic recessionoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2009
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