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This post has already gone up twice; but, as it's the one on which I worked hardest, and as this blog is always gaining and losing adh... -
Just a brief post as I'm running round the country giving talks (Booka Books in Oswestry tonight). I met a German-speaking lady in Edin...
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Because of all the attention this post is getting, I ought to point out that I was not intending to disclose some outrageous Orwellian con...
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I've been staying in the flat of an American friend and found amongst his books an American-English dictionary . It is a slim volume, a... -
A poop-noddy is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: Sexual intercourse (rare) I don't know about you, dear reader, but I... -
Here is the updated list of the fifty most quoted lines of poetry on the internet, including all the readers' suggestions. We started ... -
If I wish to do an impression of a Chinese chap, I will not allow myself to be hampered by the fact that I don't speak a word of Mandar... -
Pluto was the god of the underworld. He was also the god of wealth. That is why we have plutocracy (government by the wealthy), plutocrats ... -
Back when I was writing The Horologicon , there was one word that I desperately wanted to include. But I couldn't because I didn't ...
1) You don't need to apologise for your presentation; there's no problem with it.
ReplyDelete2) Thanks for this lesson. Things like this help it all to come together. This is a fine addition to this excellent series of posts.
3) Sometimes, when you're explaining how to determine which syllable is stressed you not only change the stress when you pronounce the word in an alternate way, you change the sound of one of the syllables. For example, when you did monstrous the first time, the second syllable was pronounced something like "strers" whereas the second time you made it sound more like "Strauss" which, to me, slightly weakens the explanation.
Keep up the good work. This is a highly entertaining and educational series.