Being the weblog of Mark Forsyth
Monday 9 October 2023
The Gift of Thrift
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Start with something simple. We've got the verb give, which we all know, and the thing that you give is a gift. They're quite obvi...
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Thursday 11 May 2023
Today is Mayday
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Today is the first of May, or that's what Shakespeare thought, as did all proper Englishmen. May, for him, ran from May 11th to June 1...
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Monday 8 November 2021
The Illustrated Etymologicon
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It is of immense importance to absolutely everyone that The Illustrated Etymologicon is now published, out, in the shops, for sale, and b...
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Tuesday 19 October 2021
Epistrophe
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I've done another little video essay with the splendid people at Little White Lies. It's about the rhetorical trope of epistrophe. ...
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Sunday 17 October 2021
Pancallistic
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Pancallism is the belief that everything is beautiful, or at least everything that exists, which is quite a lot of things. The idea, occu...
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Thursday 24 June 2021
Flying Saucers, Pelicans, Prisons and Albatrosses
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Today is, of course, the 74th anniversary of the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting . The event is celebrated by lexicographers everywhere becaus...
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Friday 14 May 2021
The Etymological Week
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The week is a curious thing: the division of our lives into a revolving, unfinishing cycles of seven days. Especially as seven days bears ...
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