Tá beagán Gailge agam
I love languages, I’m fascinated by them, so I’ve been really interested to read various posts about people learning Icelandic, which is a pretty difficult language to learn! I was interested in their...
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I was talking to my son some time ago about a terrible disappointment he had suffered and said that something seemingly unfortunate happens, but if it hadn’t, another most brilliant and wonderful...
View ArticlePapiamento
I came across something new to me, the language Papiamento, which is spoken in the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and the Caribbean Netherlands (which I think used to be called the Dutch...
View ArticleWord of the day… elucidate…
Elucidate… what a good word, it just sounds so balanced, open, somehow. I don’t know why it sprung into my mind… but on the other hand how did nematode come into my head yesterday? Elucidate: to make...
View ArticleOld words of the day
It is wonderful to know that as well as the rocky remains of early people, monoliths, chambers, cairns and the traces of their homes, they have left us some words. It is commonly thought that a form of...
View ArticleCould of, should of, would of…
I know every language is a living thing full of idiom, dialect and regional variation, and I know that grammar is a similarly evolving matter of practice and use, but, call me old-fashioned, there are...
View ArticleFonts… 2
I found this font in Utrecht Cathedral… I have no idea how old it is, but it just stood there, magnificently and almost humbly alone. I got to thinking about the word font, these days it’s most often...
View ArticleButterflies… and their effect
There was a letter in the newspaper today, commenting on the recent weather, and what may be the cause of it. Unlike the Tory councillor who believed it was the fault of the government for legalising...
View ArticleLatin and me…
When I went to secondary school, a girls’ grammar school, we had the usual array of subjects – English, French, History, Geography, Science, Maths, PE… At the end of the first year we had to choose a...
View ArticleThese incredible women
I was very fortunate with both schools I attended in Cambridge – fortunate because of the friends I made and things I learned, but fortunate too for the teachers at the school. Some were very elderly,...
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