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Bryan Henderson, a 51-year-old software engineer, has made 47,000 Wikipedia corrections since 2007. In every single case, he was correcting the phrase “comprised of”, which he claims is bad grammar. (The Independent) My bete noirs are as follows. What are yours? – “off of” (as in “I got off of the bus”), – “there’s” as …
If you have visited Herculaneum, one of the towns buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, you will be familiar with the Villa of the Papyri, owned at the time by Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, a politician and father-in-law of Julius Caesar. It was a seaside villa on a palatial scale – the width of …
“My sister found herself in an awkward conversation with her broadband services supplier to whom she was making a complaint. After a sticky exchange she finally interjected: ‘If you don’t mind me saying so, you aren’t dealing with this complaint awfully well.’ To which the woman on the other end replied, ‘Actually, I’ve just been …
Magna Carta is 800 years old. It is the document (actually more than one) that laid the groundwork for the freedoms enjoyed by millions all over the world. Equality of all before the law is a principle of good government. The knowledge that you can go before a Court and seek justice for a wrongdoing …
Yesterday I discussed the changing role of men in the Western world, and the background to male confusion in the face of feminism and feminibe assertiveness. I believe Epicurus, were he alive today, would say that the problem was not really that great. What men should do is to abandon the idea of “women’s work” …
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