Odds and Sods

I have happened upon a number of interesting word-related thingies over the past week or so. As it’s been a while since I posted anything, I’ll share them with you here.

New words(?)

Merriam-Webster, regarded by many as the US dictionary has published its new edition, and has added some 100 new words. Naturally, some [...]

July 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments

Welsh

In a slight departure from the norm, I’m going to write about a language – one that isn’t English. There are those who would tell you that Welsh as a language is dead and not relevant any more but I don’t think so. They have television, radio, books and newspapers in the language and from [...]

January 30th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: W, Welsh | 3 comments

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 [...]

November 19th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Humour, Italian, M | 8 comments

Farce

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September 18th, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Category: F, French, Latin | 3 comments