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…
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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…
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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…
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…
26 November 2018, 1120 A tiny bug in my laptop allows me to see what time I was last using it. So when I flipped…
The word synchronise is often shortened to a single syllable which sounds like sink, but whose spelling varies between <sync> and <synch>. This variability introduces us to…