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Gnomicon 277

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  277 Wednesday 13 February 2013 Read gnomica 1-250 here! 251     252     253     254     255     256     257     258     259     260     261     262     263     264     … Continue reading

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LANGUAGE OLIO 7: Words 3 — lalochezia laliophilia

‘Sex & Love: The Art of Aural Sex’, Women’s Health January/February 2012  pp. 110-111. WARNING This blog entry contains sexual and vulgar language and imagery – if this kind of thing offends you, stop here and exit. Continue at your … Continue reading

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LANGUAGE OLIO 1: Introduction

LANGUAGE OLIO – Intro In continuing my little notes on LANGUAGE, in what follows I do not mean to be mean, nor irritatingly pedantic, but just to enjoy myself and perhaps, in the process of my own amusement, amuse – … Continue reading

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On Plurals and Gender and Other Grammatical Aliens

ON PLURALS AND GENDER AND OTHER GRAMMATICAL ALIENS A personal confession is very much in order: when I am not being a nose-sniffing supercilious grammar snob there stalks dark and deadly within the cavernous crevices of my murky mind a … Continue reading

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