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Stop. Just Stop!

September 19, 2016 Longrider 9

They want to do away with the full stop now… Of course, this practice far predates the instant message. Poets have been using line breaks […]

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Heartless Bastard

April 25, 2016 Longrider 9

Yeah, me… Ending your texts with a full stop is truly monstrous. We all know this. Grammar be damned, it just doesn’t look friendly. Now […]

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Omega

April 18, 2016 Longrider 1

A recent post over at Leg Iron’s got me digging around in my archives. This one’s been sitting on an old hard drive for about […]

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First World Problems

March 25, 2014 Longrider 2

Gender neutral pronouns. When I set about revising Plain Words, the guide to English usage by my great-grandfather, Ernest Gowers, I soon realised that applying the […]