linguistlaura

The word layperson  meant, originally, a non-ordained member of the church. Well, actually maybe it didn't since it's apparently pre...

I had my first social distancing argument on Saturday. As I was queuing to pay for kippers at my local farm shop, a woman who apparently had...

Anyway, back to linguistics after all the disquisitions on the state of HE. Susie Dent posted a nice fun fact about the word two  on twitter...

Trump (who I don't blog about much because I don't think it's helpful to criticise his poor command of language when he is so un...

I read this utterly depressing article about the legal problems of rape cases in India. (Note that I'm not passing judgement on any pa...

I stumbled across the phrase an hypothesis in a book yesterday and it gave me pause. Surely, I thought to myself, that can't be right? ...

I'm having some trouble with my mobile phone tariff at the moment, and I rang up the other day to ask how it's going. The woman I sp...

As you know, the paradigm of reflexive pronouns in English is as follows: myself yourself himself/herself/itself ourselves yourselves ...