I do love pretending that this blog is topical, sprinting at the avant garde of the cutting edge, and as there's a new series of the ne...

Courtesy of Etymonline, here is splendid little Christmas present: Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer translated into Anglo-Saxon. It appears...

And here's a nice review of The Horologicon in the New York Times .

Christmas is coming, obesity is endemic in the goose population, The Elements of Eloq uence is on a special deal on Amazon Kindle , and her...

I shall, weather etc permitting, be doing an online interview on Reddit this afternoon from four until seven British time, which is 11am-2...

Whilst we all revel in our wintery wonderland, ice-skating, lighting log fires, and catching pneumonia, spare a thought for the poor Austra...

As the season of office Christmas parties is upon us, it's probably time to pull out this old roasted chestnut, a video of me explainin...