Category Archives: Linguistics

Thou Shalt Commit Adultery

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

Anyone who has ever worked in book production will know the exquisite agony of opening the first shiny new inspection copy of a work and being hit in the eye by the most blindingly obvious, incredibly stupid and horrifying ostentatious … Continue reading →

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Hobson-Jobson

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

Advance warning of an interesting-sounding programme on BBC Radio 4 at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Friday): see the article on the BBC website. We reissued Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson, Being a Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases and of Kindred Terms,  in 2010 … Continue reading →

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Mythologies

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

The brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote (edited, collected, compiled) Kinder- und Hausmärchen, or in English, Grimm’s fairy tales, and have recently been subject to a great deal of caricature on British and American television and cinema. Jacob was of … Continue reading →

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Now Is The Month of Maying . . .

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

Sadly, it isn’t: it is in fact Michaelmas, the traditional beginning of autumn (in the northern hemisphere at any rate – it wouldn’t do to be parochial: though I must just moan that I went into the supermarket in daylight … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Singapore!

Posted on February 4, 2011 by

Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826) was a remarkable example of how a career in the East India Company could lead to wealth and status for the able, regardless of birth and lack of connections. Beginning as a clerk, aged 14, he … Continue reading →

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