Tag Archives: English
Stanley Unwin’s Deepest Joys. Oh yes.
I’ve been picking up audio clips by Stanley Unwin (1911-2002), at long last — the stimulus being listening again to certain morsels used as interstitial material in a mix I picked up from Tom Raworth’s blog, many moons ago. I … more…
Posted in Cultural, film, humour, language, radio, TV
Tagged Comedy, Deep Joy, English, James-Joyce, language, Professor, Slim Gaillard, Stanley Unwin, Unwinese
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Essentialist Explanations, 13th edition
English is essentially a language in which up has forty-seven dictionary definitions, but antidisestablishmentarianism is considered a “hard word.” –John M. Ford Essentialist Explanations comprises a list of 901 “essentialist explanations” of the form “Language X is essentially language Y … more…
Posted in language, Maps and Legends, poetry
Tagged Conrad Roth, English, John Cowan, John M Ford, language
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