language
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The renaming of things
I heard a historian on the radio the other day cite a year and add ‘Common Era’ at the end. It irritated me. The BCE/CE nomenclature has been in common use for a couple of decades now, but it still irritates me. Continue reading
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American-English comprehension
My love of cinema began in my mid-teens. Back then, when there were only four television channels in the UK, the BBC broadcast a steady stream of old movies. My favourites were black and white American films from the1930s and 1940s. Continue reading
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the movement that does not capitalize
I was intrigued by the news that Dr Linda ManyGuns, the Associate Vice-President of Indigenization and Decolonization at Canada’s Mount Royal University — I’m sorry, I’ll start that again. I was intrigued by the news that dr linda manyguns, the associate vice-president of indigenization and decolonization at mru, has joined something called the movement that… Continue reading
About Me
Writer. Londoner. Wayfarer on the rolling English road.
the other place
I write about British places and history at theseislands.blog.