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…
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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…
Ireland are playing Samoa in rugby tomorrow and I had expected that Samoa would be the word of the week. Unfortunately, the pre-match build-up has…
Update: Now that Scotland have dispatched of Samoa, Ireland’s fate is back in their own hands, but here is a table outlining the permutations: Ireland’s…
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Irish rugby fans will already know which players are on the first plane to Japan and which ones will be sitting at home, moping, and…
Forming questions is a big problem for many learners of English and I have always wondered why. Students are always asking me odd-sounding questions like:…
In the first of a series of posts, I explain here the content of the book I am going to write, here on my blog.…
This was the final list of references in my PhD. I will add explanations about the various texts when I get round to it. …
I have a decade’s worth of thoughts on English spelling and I will be blogwriting them here as an e-book of sorts. This post discusses…