The Scottish Referendum. Words for thought (2): “solidarity”
First of all, a warning to readers. I normally try to keep this blog a-political and to focus mainly on language issues. However, I feel
First of all, a warning to readers. I normally try to keep this blog a-political and to focus mainly on language issues. However, I feel
As you’re probably aware (you certainly will be if you live in Scotland or one of the other UK countries!), on 18 September people on
Today is the International Day of Happiness so websites and blogs will probably be awash with videos featuring “Happy” by Pharrell Williams (or check out the 24-hours of
Today is apparently National Burger Day. For those of us more interested in words than in food (who am I kidding?), here’s the etymology of
I love a good style guide. And I applaud anyone encouraging the use of clear English. But the GOV.UK style guide, produced by the United Kingdom’s
The Scottish Government has just published the results of a poll to identify the nation’s favourite Scots word. The winner was “dreich”, which means “wet”,
I’ve just discovered a “new” Scottish online newspaper that’s been around for nearly 3 years but which I hadn’t heard of until yesterday. It’s the
It’s been a while since I wrote about my (and your) favourite or least favourite words. But at Glasgow’s State of the City Economy Conference last week (9
Yikes! I was browsing through the Online Etymology Dictionary for -le frequentatives the other day, as you do, and eventually arrived at the etyolomogical definition
For Christmas 2010, my son bought me Michael Quinion’s book Why is Q Always Followed by U?. It’s not the sort of book you’d read