This week I’ve spent a lot of time singing Rip It Up by Orange Juice, a catchy little number you may remember from the 80s, which includes the following: You know me I’m acting dumb [...]
I arrived on a video call this week in the middle of a discussion about the meaning of ‘afternoon’. Sean, quite reasonably, was saying he’d always interpreted it to mean the [...]
Weird word weird. It breaks the ‘i before e except after c’ rule for a start. And here’s a peculiar thing. Since the end of the Seventies, the word ‘weird’ has seen [...]
Now there’s a big word. Big words are under threat. People seem to have got it in for big words. One of the jobs I do is for a large financial services company, making sure their customer [...]
I was admiring the ornate ceiling of St Paul’s Cathedral this week, when I remembered that Mick the roofer was coming round to fix some loose tiles. I don’t know about you but [...]
