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| Here's a fantastic paper on 'cunt' in place names, with handy maps! |
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| I know that it's all too easy to laugh at this - . - and since when is your Spanish so good, monoglot? but... |
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| Quora did work because it says you are following me. Ta. I am a bad follower: my Quora trips tend to wait for qns to accumulate |
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| Far be it from me and all that, but that is v. kind. |
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| Lest we forget: on I ponder the background of such terms as 'toffee-nosed poxed-up loudmouthed swivel-eyed fuckpigs' |
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| I'm also so relieved that we won't buckle. And of course that E Milliband is on his way home |
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| At Merriam-Webster's "A Thing About Words," my guest post on dictionary fundamentalism: |
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| A beautiful image of Iwaki City Library in Japan. |
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| FYI: Wm Kemp acted for WS in 1600; sacked; self-publicised by dancing London to Norwich in 9 days |
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| 31 sl.phr. = ‘good luck’. e.g. ‘Would that I had Kemp's shoes to throw after you.’ All are wished |
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| Thank you. I am touched. (And thus less verbose) |
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| Autumn good. Definitely. Most days I'm just relieved to find I'm still listed amid the living. |
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| I ponder shuttered out-of-season French Atlantic resorts; which suggests Winter, but dunno really |
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| And what might, quite coincidentally to this qn, natch, happen to be your given (or chosen) name? |
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| We have to find out more about her. Surely you can’t display that glorious élan without having a life worthy of investigation |
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| Nah, lady, I'm Mr bleedin' Slang innit. But even Mr S, when pointed in the right direction, can raise his eyes above the gutter |
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| Well, fwiw, I would definitely bat. Several times. |
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| David Simon: 'I couldn't operate under your British press laws' (via ) |
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