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Over-excited Puddings and Other Odd Origins

February 19, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Fun, Language

Whether you’re miffed, waffling, ticket-boo or taking the Mickey, the English language is full of words with odd derivations. Just don’t pop your clogs before reading this…

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The 8 longest words in English

September 29, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Fun, Language

The longest word in the English language is a whisker under 190,000 letters long and would take over an hour[…]

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Famous Razors

October 22, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun, Quotes

Razors aren’t just for shaving. In philosophy, a razor is a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the[…]

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“A little lesbian joke …”

May 12, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

The Bechdel test — sometimes called the Bechdel-Wallace test — began as “a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist[…]

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Context is everything! Cats and dogs in the Bible

March 10, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun

I spotted this quote in a magazine this week … “The dog is mentioned in the Bible 18 times —[…]

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Check your popularity with n-grams

March 3, 2017 Geoff Fun

Y’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]

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Stephen Fry vs. Grammar nazis

July 21, 2016 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun
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Interesting origins

June 6, 2016 Geoff For Writers, Fun

The derivation of well-known words and phrases. Many familiar English words and phrases have interesting derivations, and because Britain was[…]

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5 English language myths

February 12, 2016 Geoff For Writers

The problem — and the delight — of the English language is that there is no such thing as Standard[…]

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Secret writer’s tools – The G&O Style Guide

September 17, 2015 Geoff Fun

Pacman or Pac-Man? Phony or phoney? Post-modern or postmodern? At some point in your writing you’re going to need a[…]

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