SECTION INDEX
This is a collection of longer pieces, not much added to these days, on some development or aspect of the language that has taken my fancy.
A rose by any other name
A test question gets grammarians arguing
A Word for All
A Zillion Troubles
Acronyms Selected for Your Enjoyment
Action at a distance
Activate the balls!
Alas Poor Nell
Aluminium versus aluminum
Balderdash and flummery
Beam me up, Scotty!
Between the Lines
Bissextile, Intercalary, Embolistic
Chosen words
Cider Insight
Citing Online Sources
Collins English Dictionary
Colour Me Environmental
Cyberplague
Decadal Dismay
Drink it, it’ll do you good
Earl Grey tea
Easy pickings
Eating crow
Ee
Elementary, my dear IUPAC
Engine and Motor
English is difficult
Fears and dreads
Fibres from the Earth
Former wines are passed away
Fudge
Gender-neutral pronouns
Get ahead, get a hat
Ghoulies and Ghosties
Gordon Bennett
Gutta-percha, Ketchup, Sago
How bona to vada your eek!
How Many Words?
How to Promote your Dictionary
How words enter the language
I before E except after C
I Spy Gry!
Impactful Ignorals
Inkhorn terms
Is This a Word?
Love these crazy titles!
Meeting room jargon
Mind the greens!
Mind Your Ps and Qs
Misplaced Modifiers
Money matters
My fellow Merkins
New Words in the News
Newspapergate
No trees in the forest?
Notta Lotta Nottle
Of messes in pots
Of thimbleriggers and joculators
Only joking?
People Versus Persons
Plain English Campaign Awards 2002
Plain English Campaign Awards 2003
Possessive Apostrophes
Precision of Lexicographers
Pro bono publico
Programming, Hungarian style
Putting the kibosh on it
Revolutionary Colours
Robodroid
Rules, Britannia
Sapristi Nadgers!
Shades of Meaning
Signs for Sums
Sipe
Talking Turkey
Thatcher's linguistic legacy
The Colour of Words
The Full Monty
The Great Element Chase
The Lure of the Red Herring
The mighty burger
The Miller’s Tale
The Whole Nine Yards
The Words of Dickens
Through the Blender
Town of Trades
Travellers to Antique Lands
Unpaired words
Ways of eating
Where it’s at
Which versus that
Words of 1997
Words of 1998
Words of 2001
Words of 2002
Words of 2003
Words of 2011
Words of the Year 2007
Words of the Year 2012
Your carriage awaits, Mr Holmes
