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…

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…

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…