Showing posts with label Grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grammar. Show all posts
Saturday, November 09, 2013

Reflections on a life-long process

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A discussion this afternoon as we walked down the Bishop's Glen under a miraculously cleared sky had me thinking. Not, on this occasion,...
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Thursday, February 07, 2013

Talking posh

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Just before I left the house this morning, I caught a snatch of Call Kaye on the radio. Should we be insisting that our children talk 'p...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

I and me and chord sequences

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Oh bother. I'm feeling a grump coming on. Having spent longer than is sensible reading old green Penguins - see past entries - I buy a c...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Not a conjunction

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It's happened again. I'm riveted by Sarah Dunant's latest novel and enjoying the intricacies of life in an Italian Renaissance c...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Calm restored. For now.

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Well well. The Dunoon Observer appeared today with my piece over which the argument arose intact - complete with the "Ands" which...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

House style in the sticks

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Urged on by Tim, I was going to blog about hymns. But the grim weather has turned my thoughts instead to the irritation caused by our local ...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

The curse of me and my friend Elsie

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I've decided there are some conditions - or is it some forms of conditioning? - which amount to a kind of curse. Nothing as bad, you und...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

English as she is spoke

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My pal Kenny blogged the other day about his use of the word "amn't". You can catch the drift (and the ten comments so far) he...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Ignorance isn't bliss

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I had one of these moments today when you don't know whether to be insufferably smug or deeply despairing. I settled for a bit of both a...
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