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An Irishman's blog about the English language.
- By Stan Carey
- Based in Ireland
- Roughly six posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
Books, especially novels, often quote song lyrics – typically as an epigraph and sometimes in the body text. If, that is, the author or publisher can afford it. But what of novels that quote songs …
Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay collection The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction has a lot of interesting material on language use and politics. Well, it has interesting material on all …
My last book spine poem was made last winter, on a seasonal theme.* With autumn slipping in and the evenings becoming short here in Ireland, a new book spine poem (aka bookmash) suggested itself. * …