Dot Wordsworth

Honorificabilitudinity

12 August 2016 11:00 pm

My husband told me with glee that Nicholas Byfield had a great big stone ‘like flint’ in his bladder, weighing…

Honorificabilitudinity

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

My husband told me with glee that Nicholas Byfield had a great big stone ‘like flint’ in his bladder, weighing…

Dustcart

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Are we seeing the end of dustcarts? I don’t mean that those noisy, noisome vehicles will cease roaring at the…

Dustcart

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

Are we seeing the end of dustcarts? I don’t mean that those noisy, noisome vehicles will cease roaring at the…

Wow!

30 July 2016 9:00 am

Veronica has become quite an addict of Twitter, just as the rest of the young are forsaking it. ‘It’s easy…

Wow!

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Veronica has become quite an addict of Twitter, just as the rest of the young are forsaking it. ‘It’s easy…

Definitions

23 July 2016 9:00 am

What is a bee? ‘A well-known insect,’ says the Oxford English Dictionary, passing the buck rather. Similarly, an ash is…

Definitions

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

What is a bee? ‘A well-known insect,’ says the Oxford English Dictionary, passing the buck rather. Similarly, an ash is…

Gig economy

16 July 2016 9:00 am

In the same song where the brilliant lyricist Ian Dury gave the world the couplet, ‘I could be a writer…

Gig economy

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

In the same song where the brilliant lyricist Ian Dury gave the world the couplet, ‘I could be a writer…

Baby with the bathwater

9 July 2016 9:00 am

Bustle, an online newspaper ‘for and by women’, has published ‘six common phrases you didn’t know were sexist (that you’ll…

Baby with the bathwater

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

Bustle, an online newspaper ‘for and by women’, has published ‘six common phrases you didn’t know were sexist (that you’ll…

Referendums

2 July 2016 9:00 am

‘One referendum, two referenda,’ chanted my husband. ‘No, no, it’s a gerund. The English plural is referendums,’ interrupted Veronica, red…

Referendums

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

‘One referendum, two referenda,’ chanted my husband. ‘No, no, it’s a gerund. The English plural is referendums,’ interrupted Veronica, red…

Eight hard words

25 June 2016 3:00 am

I was humiliated in trying to make out the meaning of eight hard words. See how you do: claustration, edulcoration,…

Eight hard words

23 June 2016 2:00 am

I was humiliated in trying to make out the meaning of eight hard words. See how you do: claustration, edulcoration,…

Little England

18 June 2016 9:00 am

In the art of insult, the sting lies in the adjective, no matter how derogatory the noun. So it is…

Little England

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

In the art of insult, the sting lies in the adjective, no matter how derogatory the noun. So it is…

How’s your father

11 June 2016 8:00 am

‘Very funny, I don’t think,’ said my husband when I mentioned Harry Tate, although Tate died in 1940 and even…

How’s your father

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

‘Very funny, I don’t think,’ said my husband when I mentioned Harry Tate, although Tate died in 1940 and even…

Include me out of this grammatical atrocity

4 June 2016 9:00 am

Just as, in writing, many people use an exclamation mark to indicate that they have made a joke, so there…

Including

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Just as, in writing, many people use an exclamation mark to indicate that they have made a joke, so there…

Word of the week: 'concept'

28 May 2016 9:00 am

‘It was nothing special, but it was a pub,’ said my husband, looking up from his copy of Bar magazine…

Concept

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

‘It was nothing special, but it was a pub,’ said my husband, looking up from his copy of Bar magazine…

Are exclamation marks still vulgar? Yes!

21 May 2016 9:00 am

‘Like eating in the street,’ said my husband. Astonishing! He’d said something not only coherent in itself but also connected…