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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
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 3 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
A selection of topical language-related links for your reading (or listening) pleasure. I have cameos in a couple of them: I am not a typo. Linguistic capture errors. How robins got their name. The endangered-language …
‘Lucky might get going all of a sudden. Then we’d be banjaxed.’ (Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot) Banjaxed and bockety are a fun pair of words in the Irish English vernacular. Banjaxed I heard from …
Lorrie Moore’s 2009 novel A Gate at the Stairs offers among its attractions several passages and exchanges of lexical and linguistic interest. This post looks at some of them. The book’s narrator, Tassie, is a …