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Monthly Archives: August 2024
Vernacular norms (guest post by Joan Beal)
August 1 is Yorkshire day and, right on cue, a link to a BBC news item about Yorkshire dialect arrived in a WhatsApp message from my daughter Alice, who lives in Sheffield: New signs drawn up after council apostrophe error. … Continue reading
Bridging the Unbridgeable 
On Richard Osman and his editors
So I’ve finally read them all, all four of Richard Osman‘s The Thursday Murder Club crime novels. Not in the order in which they were published, due to their availability in our public library (so that in the end I … Continue reading →