How Many Words Do You Know?

According to this site, I have a vocabulary of 34,300 words. Go and test yourself and report back. And while you’re at it, know that you are contributing to serious research about the vocabulary sizes of native English speakers. In the name of research, go forth and suck the very marrow of time. And if you’re [...]

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I Submitted

… my revisions and therefore I deserve a list. After I open a large bottle of wine, that is. Thanks to the lovely Ms Musings – who found it at Thomas’s Porch – here is a list of The Sunday Times 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945. Which ones have you read? 1. Philip Larkin - yes [...]

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Feeling Horizontal

I’ve just come back from a week in Mallorca, having found its quiet, laid-back corner (it still exists) and am feeling horizontal. I wonder if my sun lounger misses me? Life is going up a gear for me, however, as I start work in two weeks’ time – a real, fulltime job – just as [...]

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