The memory of incessant snow, freezing winds, sludge and ice remind me that the Swiss are far happier in cold and wintry conditions; it’s what the country and its people are designed for, in a way. It’s as if the rest of the year is no more than an unfulfilling non-dress rehearsal in the […]
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Rumours of Snow: The Swiss relationship with the scent of a white winter
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Rumours of Snow: The Swiss relationship with the scent of a white winter
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Save Money; Buy Quality! – Philip Eves
Uckfield Entrepreneurs: Philip Eves of PP Estates PP Estates is not only Uckfield’s but Sussex’s [...]
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LILY CUTLERY PUMP: August 2026
Ahem, Lily Kay Chislett was born on 14th August 2026 to Ella and Sam in [...]
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BLANKETS ORAL PONTOON: July 2026
Ahem, Ella and Sam gave a party at their new house to celebrate their move [...]
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Everyone’s got a story to tell. Are you telling yours? No? Then GET RIGHTING! GET RIGHTING! is for anyone who has something to say and wants to say it well, whether it’s a poem, a memoir, a speech, a lyric, a novel, copy for a website, or just the emails and letters of everyday life. […]
The hidden past of the bisexual pronoun Those of all political and cultural persuasions will be delighted to hear the exciting news. The old pronoun they, supposedly re-purposed for new duty by the thought police, is not a new way to hide gender-specific pronoun and possessive uses like he and she, him and her. In fact, they was the word used by writers […]
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These days the ampersand is used mostly in business names, but is often frowned upon as an alternative to the more general and personal use of ‘and’. The shape of “&” predates the word ampersand by 2,000 years, when Roman scribes wrote in cursive. They wrote the Latin word “et” which means “and”, then started […]
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Here are ten tips on selecting the right words in the right order and on making written words and phrases simpler, clearer, and better understood. The preliminary rule is first to be aware and conscious of your audience. Depending on the nature of the audience for your writing, any or all of the rules below […]
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What is often termed Business / Corporate English has become little more than dead code, a lacklustre collection of weak and overused phrases stretched unevenly across an unimaginative vocabulary. And it’s not confined to English. There are very similar deathwish trends affecting French, Spanish, German and most other developed-world languages. The real problem is that […]
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A hyperbaton is when you put words in an order that seems or sounds wrong, which is difficult to do with confidence in English. When almost everything else in the English language is so careless, lazy, and slapdash, the rules for English adjectival word order are throat-tighteningly strict. Punishment for this crime, as ever, is […]
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Those of all political and cultural persuasions will be delighted to hear the exciting news. The old pronoun they, apparently re-purposed for new duty by the thought police, is not just a new way to hide gender-specific pronoun and possessive uses like he and she, him and her. In fact they was the word used […]
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Lionel Stanbrook Words are the least understood part of that crowded, undisciplined and noisy group of ill-fitting elements that together make up what we call communications. In fact, words often get in the way of communications, like rider-less horses in a race. Complaining about them is like hooting at stationary cars in a traffic jam. […]
Cote d’Ivoire Diaries November – December 2016 One early morning in a chilly, dark mid-November, I left a mist-engulfed Basel airport and emerged a few hours later into a golden afternoon wall of West African heat. I was picked up promptly at the airport and taken to a small studio flat in the north […]