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A few gems from MacAlpine’s Gaelic Dictionary (1833)

Posted 15 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

In his book On The Life and Death of Languages, linguist Claude Hagège talks about Pomo, an Amerindian language spoken in Northern California. This language has a verb which means ‘to suddenly introduce words into a song that one was …

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More literary word-games…

Posted 21 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Followers of Perec abound. ‘Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes…’ This is the opening sentence of Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa (1974). The first chapter is composed only of words that begin with ‘a’, the second of words …

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Lengthy formulations expunged

Posted 138 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Some time back I wrote in my blog of a book in which there were no long words at all. And yet it did not feel at all strange to read it. In fact I asked a few Brits who …

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More unexpected etymologies…

Posted 216 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Today, some unexpected etymologies. All of the following words have become so deeply embedded in English that I, for one, would never have imagined they were borrowings from sundry other languages. Slogan – from the Celtic slaugh and gheun, battle …

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Timely – adverb or adjective?

Posted 259 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

“Their work is timely, accurate and cost efficient.” Does there seem to be something wrong with this sentence? There did to me, too, namely the use of the word timely. Now, to me timely suggests that something is done at …

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