Thoroughly tough thoughts
More about our wonderful language... I speak reasonably good French. I learned it at school (well, I scraped an O-level), I have taken...
In praise of the humble apostrophe
This is a revised version of a piece that I originally posted, on the previous manifestation of In my own write, in March 2012. That post...
Homographs, heteronyms, and a love affair with the English language
I’ve always loved words, and ever since I was a kid I’ve been fascinated by the structure and content of the English language. Take, for...