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More or fewer or less
When it comes to English, I am somewhat caught between two stools. As a student of language, I am of course a descriptivist. No one who has a…
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More about less and fewer
One of the key battles for pedants in their mostly fruitless fight to force English speakers not to speak the English they speak or write the English they…
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On whether you should write whether
One of my big nits as an editor is the slurring of fhe fields of meaning for words. So it irks me that “therefore” and “thus” are used…
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How am I going to get home tonight
I can hear the scratch of the tyres on gravel, but by the time I reach the window the car has disappeared and through the bars I can…
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Mapoto Gorge
A few weeks after that, I saw Perks in the street. I hailed him and he stopped to talk. Why Perks, I said, I haven’t seen you since…
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Minute
She pushes the suds over the plate. She is looking at it. Soap runs down her arm, drips back on to her shirt. She uses a nail to…
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