Tag Archives: grammar

Apostrophe joke

Know your place

The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit. Update Like most people, when I saw this I smiled knowingly without looking much further than the joke’s obvious intention,…

Shakespeare sonnets with rose

In defence of obscure words

Do you know what these words mean: sesquipedalian, desiderata, milt, ineluctable, modality, argot, grue, heliotropic, solipsism? Would you be put off reading something if a writer had you reaching for…

Baby looking surprised

Here a smack, there a smack

Disregarding the simplistic and unevidenced class-based pronouncement by David Lammy that a lack of parental self-confidence in disciplining children could be partly responsible for so profound a social problem as…

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