I don't know how many of this blog's readers are called Martin, it's not the sort of thing that's easy to check up on. Non...

Just a link today to this fascinating article in The Atlantic on how people spoke in the sixties versus the dialogue in Mad Men . The ...

I was in church yesterday, and towards the end of the service the chap in black with the funny neck-piece said the following: O God, th...

The OED has just released their trimensual list of those lucky new words that have been admitted to their hallowed pages. You can see the...

This is a small and terribly obvious point as soon as you think about it. We all know that a statuette is a little statue , and a kitchene...

A friend of mine was telling me the other day how happy he had been before "the rains came". There's something beautifully b...

Sir William Davenant (who was quite possibly Shakespeare's illegitimate son, and quite certainly his godson) wrote a play about thea...