There must be a French word for the mess you make while trying to eat a croissant. German would sure have a word for it.

‘Para’, originally Greek meaning ‘beside’, has also come in English to be a prefix meaning ‘beyond’. Apt for the #Paralympics I’m looking forward to the Olympics Plus

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Listened to a song someone liked on here. Didn’t like it. Decided not to say anything, nor tell that person they were wrong. There’s too much self-absorbed moaning on x-twitter.

For the whole of the last century and this, ordinary people have been palmed off with crappy housing, poor services, the cheapest of everything that greed, selfishness, privilege and wealth could get away with. #Grenfell is just the most extreme obscene consequence.

Proper tea. Cusworth Hall. Toasted teacake on its way.

Great writing from Harry Pearson on dementia

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Why do I always spell ‘elegaic’ wrongly (like that)? I convince myself that is the proper spelling even after I have checked in the dictionary. I think it looks better and everyone else is wrong.

September cheese drop! You could smell this lot from the doorstep as it was delivered.

Aston Stylistics Research Group is back with another research seminar series for 2024-25. Once more we have a brilliant line up of speakers. Further details of titles and how to register soon! PALA Literary Semantics University English English Association appliedstylistics.com/research-semin…

Am clearing out a filing cabinet and it is an archaeology of tech: ~ ppt on CDs ~ ppt on floppies ~ printed OHP transparencies ~ handwritten OHPs ~ typewriter handouts ~ handwritten handouts/notes — that gets me back to 1988

Trying to think through an argument about a new grammar, and figured it out by cleaning the gutters and painting all the window frames and stone sills. Sometimes thinking just requires a fear of falling

I’ll be at this. Andy Long - are you coming? It’s at your gaff. Very much looking forward to it!

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