A Momentary Taste of Being

The Queen's Rap v. Canada

Orwellian Language Games--5 Joseph Brodsky said, “Evil takes root when one man starts to think that he is better than another.”  And how many of us do not on a daily basis?

How the KJV still shapes the way we speak It certainly has had some lasting metaphors and similes that people spout off without knowing their source.

Orwell Watch # 2: Murder in Yeovil

No, I'm not explaining, you simply must read to believe-- return of the octothorp

An article from NYT Followup from NYT From Open Culture These were tremendously exciting to me--some of the real promise of the internet realized.

The blogger at Linwë treats us to a study of English irregular verbs and their origins in German grammatical rules.   Cool.  Don't you just love everything about language?