Showing posts with label Query. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Query. Show all posts

Monday, 17 November 2014

'The three war cemeteries...'























Is it a 'thing', then, in commemorative inscriptions (and/or elsewhere) that you can put a comma between words written in the lower case, but not if they're in capital letters?

Or does one of those two (?) places contain two (or indeed even three) war cemeteries within it?

(One might argue, in the circumstances, that the comma before 'saith the LORD' is one of the more superfluous punctuation marks in the English language.)

Monday, 19 May 2014

Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Question

What is ticky-tacky? And why would one make boxes out of it?

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Query

What happens if you take a trip up Memory Lane - or even just walk down it backwards?

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Style guidance

Does one 'shit' a shit and 'crap (out)' a crap? On paper, I mean. Is it better - in these circumstances, if no other - to be varied and eloquent, or straightforward and logical?

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Something Amis

Is the opening paragraph of The Information the worst thing I've ever read, or what?

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

One Kleenex

... two Kleenices?

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Query

Do the French say 'cool comme un concombre'?

That would be... cool.