Peak geek. Logophile. Bibliophile. (Im)mature BA Hons English Language graduate. MA English post-grad student. Plain English devotee.
Alternate Universe, surely?
Joined February 2015
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i don't think "well" should autocorrect to "we'll" under any circumstance
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For several days, my timeline has been full of people doing a good impression of the Death Eaters from Harry Potter insisting only purebloods can call themselves English. No time to reply to all of them, but five quick questions for any who care to engage 1/6
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Romeo! Romeo! Hwȳ eart ðū Romeo ġehāten?
Wiðsac þīnne fæder and forwiern þīnne naman!
Robert Eggers is set to direct a new film adaptation of ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’.
The film will feature the actors speaking in Olde English.
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)
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Não são o James e a Lilly. São dois bruxos comemorando a queda do Voldemort que deve estar no primeiro episódio da série.
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Happy Back To Hogwarts Day!
This is where it all began…
stories.jkrowling.com/j-k-ro…
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The worst possible outcome of calling a by-election would be if everyone just ignored the whole thing and left me to spend the next few weeks shouting at a bin.
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This country has a severe lack of patience and a severe abundance of entitlement.
I’m not saying this guy was perfect, but claiming he did a bad job because change wasn’t instant is so short sighted.
We shouldn’t be able to change PMs every 2 years - whichever side.
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Next up we have @ChrisMasonBBC explaining why Andy Burnham is the worst Prime Minister we’ve ever had
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Starmer was hated. Says far more about the electorate than the man. Impossible to govern when people want welfare, triple lock, tax loopholes, NIMBYist vetoes, while also hating the low growth, high debt economy this entails. Starmer was a good man leading an ungovernable country
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Two of the five don’t. Orwell’s celebrated essay is deeply misguided (notably his strictures against passives) and his ‘rules’ are plagiarised. Zinsser’s On Writing Well is a terrible book that absurdly claims most adverbs & adjectives are ‘unnecessary’. The book is full of them!
Five texts that explain how to write simply and well economist.com/the-economist-…
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🆕 A free 2-dose MenB vaccine will be available for a limited time from end of July.
Who can have it?
- All current Year 13s
- Anyone either starting university as an undergrad or moving into further education halls for the first time in autumn 2026, aged under 25.
ALT MenB vaccine available for a limited time from late July 2026. Who is eligible? All current year 13 students (or of equivalent age). Anyone aged under 25 starting university or moving into further education halls of residence for the first time this autumn. Two doses are essential for protection.
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Labour didn’t lose council seats because of @Keir_Starmer’s leadership…
They lost seats because there’s a pernicious fascist cancer infecting public discourse and giving simplistic solutions to people that would never normally vote in local elections
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"Anyone who imagines that the construction of such a cavity between a man’s legs makes him a woman would appear to equate womanhood with the presence of an accommodating hole into which another man may ejaculate. On that measure, a blow-up doll is a woman. I am not quite sure how to do justice in words to how insulting and morally repugnant I find this proposition."
