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I’m not a big fan of unnecessarily long words. They usually seem rather show-offy to me and it’s even worse when people who don’t know how [...]
March 25, 2015
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There was a time when elders in the family had a ‘saying’ for everything. “A stitch in time saves nine” grandma would say when you [...]
March 25, 2015
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An oxymoron sounds a bit like it could be a moron who gives oxygen? Or an oxygenated moron? Hmm… A lively moron then… Someone who’s [...]
March 25, 2015
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Except when they are a list of things we have to do, we all love lists. Recently there was a meme going around asking people to list the ten [...]
March 25, 2015
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We tend to (naturally enough) think that it’s because of the empire that the British had that English is so widely spoken around the world. Yet [...]
March 25, 2015