Mind your language
King Charles’s head
‘It has become something of a King Charles’ head, or should that be a King Charles’s head?’ said my husband,…
An historic
Everybody’s saying it, even though the latest research declares that only 6 per cent of the population is given to…
St Thomas’s
Everyone praised the staff of St Thomas’s Hospital during the terrorist attack. My husband of course brought his own fly to…
Girls
Sir Roger Gale sounds like an old-bufferish knight of the shires, but he once worked as a disc-jockey on a…
Meet with
Don’t tell my husband, but I have been having doubts. (He never reads this column, so our secret is safe.)…
Kippah
What, asks the columnist Philologus in the online magazine Mosaic, is the difference between a kippah and a yarmulke? I’m…
Kippah
What, asks the columnist Philologus in the online magazine Mosaic, is the difference between a kippah and a yarmulke? I’m…
Pick
I have long pondered the motive with which Michael Wharton, for long the author of the Daily Telegraph’s Peter Simple…
Pick
I have long pondered the motive with which Michael Wharton, for long the author of the Daily Telegraph’s Peter Simple…
Curry favour
The number of things I don’t know is infinite — or infinite minus one, if such as number exists, since…
Curry favour
The number of things I don’t know is infinite — or infinite minus one, if such as number exists, since…
Rocket
‘It is rocket science,’ said my husband waving a pinnately lobed leaf snatched from his restaurant salad. He doesn’t much…
Rocket
‘It is rocket science,’ said my husband waving a pinnately lobed leaf snatched from his restaurant salad. He doesn’t much…
Trope
A law I’d like to see passed would exact severe penalties for the use of the word trope. It is…
Trope
A law I’d like to see passed would exact severe penalties for the use of the word trope. It is…
Trope
A law I’d like to see passed would exact severe penalties for the use of the word trope. It is…
Italianglish
Waiting for my husband in a Rome hotel, I was reduced to reading some of the weekend newspaper supplements. The…
Italianglish
Waiting for my husband in a Rome hotel, I was reduced to reading some of the weekend newspaper supplements. The…
Carnage
‘This carnage stops here,’ declared the headline in the Daily Telegraph, quoting President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech. My husband tried…
Carnage
‘This carnage stops here,’ declared the headline in the Daily Telegraph, quoting President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech. My husband tried…
Carillion
‘Look, darling, a spelling mistake,’ said my husband, looking out of the window, as he had been for minutes, like…
Carillion
‘Look, darling, a spelling mistake,’ said my husband, looking out of the window, as he had been for minutes, like…
Nativism
The title of America’s first woman bishop was claimed in 1918 by Bishop Alma White, leader of the Pillar of…
Nativism
The title of America’s first woman bishop was claimed in 1918 by Bishop Alma White, leader of the Pillar of…
Americanisms
Here are eight invasive Americanisms to continue annoying us in 2017. Running for office. Liz Kendall was ‘running for the…
