On Ways, Quirks and Reversed Perspective
Inscrutable, as we are so frequently reminded, are the ways of Providence. Having duly paid…
Prometeus
This category is about languages.
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A Style Guide to the Russian North
Having taken a brief inventory of my journal, I realised, with a touch of chagrin,…
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A Guide to Winged Angelology
This wooden cherub of nineteenth-century vintage once adorned a house transported from the abandoned settlement…
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The Fish Strikes Back
An Exercise in Etymological Re-enactment and Aquatic Karma The study of language is eternally replete…
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An Etymological Dessert from Persian Apples
On Ribs, Heroes, and the Surprising Geography of Language Summer is upon us, bringing with…
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From Ice Cream to the Messiah
The conversation recently turned, as civilized discourses so often do on a sultry afternoon, to…
