HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 21 articles in category 'English language'. Scrapbook for April Website changes | Trump's erection by the sea | USA v. Iran in 42 seconds | Why I could never be a police call handler Posted on UTC 2026-04-01 02:01 Words: 631; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for August FoS website changes | The guess: the new real | Only a matter of time… | Page view statistics | The Slough of Despond, then and now | This cannot end well | Sweet-rationing in the UK | Too clever by half | Hobby horse, gnomic edition Posted on UTC 2020-08-01 02:01 Words: 1,710; reading time: 7 minutes Butch browsing Google Chrome, the coding man's browser of choice. Posted on UTC 2020-08-14 10:43 Words: 827; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on UTC 2020-08-14 Hate speech sanitizer A simple tool for those who don't want to cause offence. 'So shines a good deed in a naughty world'. Posted on UTC 2019-10-26 16:14 Words: 1,032; reading time: 4 minutes Language, Truth and Logic We're right, you're wrong. Go away and shut up. Posted on UTC 2018-08-06 14:41 Words: 2,813; reading time: 12 minutes Scrapbook for July The Grenfell fire: the EU fingerprint | Getting the most out of solar panels | What's in a name®? | Planet Snowball with brief warm spells Posted on UTC 2017-07-01 02:01 Words: 493; reading time: 2 minutes The pursuit of happiness Not as simple as it sounds, especially in two languages. Posted on UTC 2017-06-19 10:43 Words: 1,592; reading time: 7 minutes Updated on UTC 2017-06-20 OUP WOTY 'post-truth': WTF! OUP discovers 'objective facts' and sticks it to us knuckledraggers. We still won though, and that's a fact. Posted on UTC 2016-11-16 11:01 Words: 820; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook Solar Impulse update | Spare the rod, spoil the child | Swiss snow having orderly fun | The propagation of nonsense | Accumulated wisdom | Some more people not saying things | Eamonn and Ruth's little secret | Headline of the year award Posted on UTC 2016-02-01 02:01 Words: 936; reading time: 4 minutes Language Lab The untouchables: decimate and beg the question. Posted on UTC 2016-02-26 14:22 Words: 1,538; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on UTC 2016-02-26 Rabid lexicography The insensitivity, it drives you mad! Posted on UTC 2016-01-26 13:50 Words: 1,519; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on UTC 2016-01-26 Language Lab A collection of Americanisms and the Great British Stress Shift. Posted on UTC 2016-01-23 17:05 Words: 1,243; reading time: 5 minutes Mohammed: not my prophet Do I have a choice? Probably not. Posted on UTC 2016-01-17 13:50 Words: 590; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on UTC 2016-02-06 The below above The mould spreads slowly but surely into the jam below. Posted on UTC 2016-01-06 11:20 Words: 534; reading time: 2 minutes Sanitised swearing A trigger warning: sensitive souls should have the sal volatile handy. Posted on UTC 2016-01-05 19:20 Words: 1,573; reading time: 7 minutes Language Lab Follicle mites face off, likely causing problems. Posted on UTC 2015-12-15 15:07 Words: 382; reading time: 1 minute M'learned wag The search for wit in lawyers continues. Posted on UTC 2015-12-15 08:27 Words: 232; reading time: 1 minute The dramatic Climatic Unit One aspect of climatic nonsense still going strong after nearly half a century and now probably too late to fix. Posted on UTC 2015-11-27 09:54 Words: 261; reading time: 1 minute Language Lab Today we are reaching out to all the significant others on the planet. Posted on UTC 2015-11-25 14:22 Words: 819; reading time: 3 minutes Jigsaw-puzzle grammar Writing for meaning, as opposed to writing for tedious pedants. Posted on UTC 2015-11-13 08:02 Words: 1,966; reading time: 8 minutes Data despair One more push in the battle against 'data are'. There are still pockets of resistance: bitter people with nothing to lose who will probably fight to the last bullet. Posted on UTC 2015-10-14 15:22 Words: 611; reading time: 2 minutes
