Strine

A kindly English teacher gave me a copy of “Strine” when I was young – presumably to get me to sit down and/or shut up, as many of my teachers found it pleasing to do. I had completely forgotten about it, until the other day, when it just popped back into my head. In the [...]

Mondegreen

Thanks once again to Daphne, a regular reader and rapidly becoming a regular contributor on this blog! The thanks are not only for this excellent piece but for spontaneously helping me out in what has been a very busy week. So without further ado…

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Motto

Hello there. Reports of my exit from the blogosphere have been greatly exaggerated!

Whilst it’s true I have been something of a lazy slug recently, I hope to post a bit more than I have been doing in the past couple of weeks. If you don’t mind, I intend to expand the content of this [...]