My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease... Is the opening of a sonnet by Shakespeare. The love ...

There's a funny little thing called a mondegreen that you have, no doubt, experienced. Have you ever listened to Purple Haze and wonde...

Spot the connection between these two: I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.    - Eliot's Waste Land POPE'S BROT...

I was reading this week's copy of The Week and was astonished to discover that:   Brown appealed to voters last weekend I felt that ...

There's always a problem with parallel adjectives - good times and bad times - that, if not antithetical, they at least imply mutual ...

The Miliband brothers  seem to get disproportionate coverage on this blog. Here's an article from Ed: There is a big fight on for Br...

I arranged by telephone to meet Mrs Malaprop for a curry tomorrow night. At the end of the call I said "Good bye" (as it was spo...

This morning I saw a headline squashed into a side-column: BODY OF JOURNALIST KILLED BY BOMB IS FLOWN HOME The problem was that I was...

There's a letter in this week's Economist on the meanings of the word we . In English we have three: the regular we meaning you ...

It may simply be me, but in my precaffeinated trance this morning I read that: A third of professors could move abroad because of govern...

Today I read a review describing a film as "deceptively lightweight". What, I wondered, did this mean? Did the reviewer think the...

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LESSONS PLANNED    - According to the BBC I remember the time I applied for the post of "Hate Crimes Coordinator...