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Is there value left anywhere in buying a new home?
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Is there value left anywhere in buying a new home?

by A2dez

Preamble: Why I care about the price of new homes in Ireland So we are in the morket for a new gaff now. The landlord…

How are you getting on over there? Covid deaths on island nations
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How are you getting on over there? Covid deaths on island nations

by A2dez

Part 1. Pre-vaccination. Jan 2020 – April 2021     Back in early April, when people in Ireland still couldn’t sit down for a cup…

‘The best shit job’: my [former] life as an English language teacher in Ireland.
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‘The best shit job’: my [former] life as an English language teacher in Ireland.

by A2dez

Above: some of my Omani students on their National Holiday in 2014 December 2018 In solidarity with the teachers in Grafton College who have abruptly…

The distinctiveness principle in English spelling: “An eye for an I, a too for a two”
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The distinctiveness principle in English spelling: “An eye for an I, a too for a two”

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Why are the words two, to and too spelt differently, even though they sound the same? What about meat and meet? Or catarrh and Qatar? Or OutKast and outcast? And  why do greet and great not rhyme? The answer lies…

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To the lighthouse. Part 1: Poolbeg

Posted on August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 by A2dez

Sunday Aug 28, 2022 I had no intention of coming to Poolbeg Lighthouse this morning but I got a nasty dose of sunrise fomo and…

The vowel spellings of English monosyllables
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The vowel spellings of English monosyllables

Posted on April 30, 2021August 17, 2021 by A2dez

  Warning: This is a first draft, so bear with me. Busy busy.  The plot is busy. Very very busy. That’s because English spelling is…

Thrice bitten: Ireland shuts up shop again after December jamboree
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Thrice bitten: Ireland shuts up shop again after December jamboree

Posted on January 2, 2021January 5, 2021 by A2dez

0937, January 2, 2021. A nothing Saturday, if ever there was one. I’m writing on a bench in Stephen’s Green. If I didn’t have a…

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Posted on April 5, 2020 by A2dez

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The growth of Coronavirus around the world: interactive chart
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The growth of Coronavirus around the world: interactive chart

Posted on March 23, 2020April 27, 2021 by A2dez

      AClick for interactive view and focus on any one (or more) countries. Click autoscale to expand lines within each region / box.covid_deaths_per_captita_7-4-2020 …

Letters, syllables, and letters per syllable
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Letters, syllables, and letters per syllable

Posted on December 29, 2019April 27, 2021 by A2dez

During the autumn I was engaged in a machine-learning project, trying to predict pronunciation from English spelling, but I took the uncharted approach of seeing…

Number of letters in each syllable versus the stress pattern
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Number of letters in each syllable versus the stress pattern

Posted on November 9, 2019December 28, 2019 by A2dez

This is just a short note from some graphs I’ve been creating this week: The above plot shows like 60,000 bisyllabic words and names of…

The size and shape of English words
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The size and shape of English words

Posted on October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 by A2dez

The problem This weekend, as soon as soon as Ireland had been dispatched from the rugby world cup in Japan, I kept seeing the word…

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