Category: Wonderings
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Collison Hayes at The House of St Barnabas
After work today I busted a move to London to meet my partner in life plans, Dan. I started working with Dan something like four years ago, when I joined the Yellsites Premium team. We were instantly compatible: both know-it-alls, both unwilling to consider that someone else’s opinion might be valid…but somehow we made a…
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The Joy of Thesauri
I’ve been getting my thesaurus on. As you know, I recently acquired the latest New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, and it inspired me to pay more attention to my collection (yes, collection) of thesauri. The word thesaurus comes from the Greek thēsauros, meaning ‘storehouse’ or ‘treasure’. That is undebatably fantastic. So it pleases…
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The Scarlet Letter
Last night I found The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne on my tablet and started reading it out loud – largely to annoy Phil. It’s gloriously verbose and the language is a joy. The poor lamb couldn’t understand why it took a whole page to say “Some old English birds were there.” Oh, but the description…
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Book 1: Dare Me by Megan Abbott
I went into the library on Saturday and picked up book number one on the first shelf to the left – what I would consider to be the first book in the library. It’s a book about cheerleaders. It seems to be for adults, which is confusing, and is a confection of made-up compound adjectives.…
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My Opus
It is fairly important that you go take a look at my disserta— I mean the ingenie Young Driver Report. We’ve been working on it for a long time now and I’ve had dreams about road safety statistics. So do me a solid: go have a skim. The ingenie Young Driver Report >
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