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The Origins of Terms and Phrases

13th July 2024 Going Postal 2369 Comments

There are terms and phrases which remain in use today, despite the fact they were coined many years or many centuries ago. In some cases it is quite remarkable that they have survived and stand [more…]

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An English to English Dictionary

7th May 2024 Going Postal 2200 Comments

I have long wondered if a dictionary existed that translates the bastardised version of the English language used in America to our original version. That bloke Webster has a lot to answer for, compiling his [more…]

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A Taster Lesson in Italian

23rd March 2024 Going Postal 2694 Comments

I am trying to learn Italian. Mia Nonna was Italian from Florence and I am going to the Italian Riviera for my main holiday this June. I can make a reasonable fist of reading simple [more…]

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Crom’s Deep Dive: Richard III, Act 1 Scene 1

18th March 2023 Going Postal 2725 Comments

A small confession: my first introduction to this opening soliloquy was as a child on a Saturday afternoon from none other than Arnold Judas Rimmer in Red Dwarf. He and Lister are marooned and, to [more…]

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Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1

4th March 2023 Going Postal 2920 Comments

Welcome to the second of Crom’s Deep Dives. I was touched by some of your comments on the first of this series and found they motivated me to find the time to commence this second [more…]

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Crom’s Deep Dive: Richard II, Act 3 Scene 2

25th February 2023 Going Postal 2793 Comments

“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs” The first in this series of Deep Dives will look at the language and linguistic devices employed in Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Richard II. First, [more…]

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Language today! Progress? No!

2nd April 2022 Fred Brownbill 1874 Comments

I do not know about you all but I am disgusted daily at what passes as normal and correct language. Swear words are the normal. I understand having been many years military and law enforcement [more…]

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Sorrows of a Language Lover

19th August 2021 Going Postal 2425 Comments

The purpose of language is communication.  Anything which muddies the language is the enemy of communication, and something which deliberately obscures the meaning of the words is the work of the Devil. I want to [more…]

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Confessions of a Language Lover

28th July 2021 Going Postal 3053 Comments

“Grammar Nazi”: the words spit out at me from the screen.  Because the paucity of the allusion profoundly depresses me, I have decided to spare the complainants personal embarrassment by no longer highlighting their individual [more…]

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