Here’s a word that will trigger very different responses in readers, depending on whether you work in a bank, a hospital, in new business development, on the railways, at sea, or, like me, [...]
There are many words you could use to describe the American Presidential election. You’ll have your own favourites. The word that kept popping into my mind was ‘faucet’. This is [...]
Those of you who were paying attention three weeks ago will recall that I was banging on about words that are commonly misspelt (‘that’ being the chief example), and I happened to [...]
“I talk to the trees but they don’t listen to me.” So sang Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon. It was the song that both began and ended his singing career, an optimistic little [...]
