Monthly Archive: January 2006

oy veh, moving

Somehow I forgot that moving to London meant I was MOVING to London. You know the cliche about how moving is the most stressful thing...

A fox and a dinkle dinseed joke

A fox and a dinkle dinseed joke

Truly! I forgot to say. My friend Emily, on Sunday, had just been bemoaning the cancellation of the hunt in England, saying it was the...

the English language

I’ve been thinking about the unvarnished nature of English English. Both in the pronunciation and the actual choice of words. Anything that’s taken from the...