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An Irishman's blog about the English language.

  • By Stan Carey
  • Based in Ireland
  • Roughly seven posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 10
2023 12
2024 6

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

‘How to see one’s own world’: Ursula K. Le Guin on writing style
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 …
On , by Stan Carey, 1,525 words
Book spine poem: Sleep the Big Sleep
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. * …
On , by Stan Carey, 222 words
Birth of the coolth
I was sad to hear that Edna O’Brien had died. She lived a remarkable life and leaves an amazing body of work: she was, in Eimear McBride’s description, ‘one of the last great lights of …
On , by Stan Carey, 1,470 words