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…
Author: A2dez
* Doctor of English spelling *
Teacher *
Wordsman *
Bantersmasher *
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…
Part 1. Pre-vaccination. Jan 2020 – April 2021 Back in early April, when people in Ireland still couldn’t sit down for a cup…
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…
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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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…
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 problem This weekend, as soon as soon as Ireland had been dispatched from the rugby world cup in Japan, I kept seeing the word…