Shakespeare went to Bath. He wrote a sonnet about it. You see, people used to go to Bath because the warm waters there were considered medi...

I was idly leafing through The Dialect of South Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary  (1850), when I came across Suss-middin wh...

Just a link today, becauseI'm lazy. Here's an article from the New York Times on the relentless infiltration of Britishisms into...

I'll be talking in Blackwells Newcastle today at six, and Blackwells Edinburgh tomorrow at six thirty. Also, The Horologicon has just...

I'm off to Leeds today to give a talk at Waterstones  at 7pm. This will give me a wonderful chance to hurple. Hurple's a strange ve...

I know. I'm sorry. I didn't post on Friday. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa . It's the perils of a book tour. However, t...

I'll be talking in Blackwells Oxford this evening and in Heffers Cambridge tomorrow. Now read on... Whilst sitting upon the commode ...