Nine lives on Kickstarter

Being interested in language, one of the YouTubers I follow is Rob Watts of RobWords ( here , 2026a).  In February this year, Rob posted a...

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Luck and practice... or work?

Years ago I put together a slide deck for my students to help them create PowerPoint presentations. One of the quotes I used was - I thought...

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Some Heinlein quotes part 3

As previously mentioned ( here ), I have been searching for a Robert Heinlein (RAH) quote around the idea ‘make it idiot-proof and the wor...

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Sky blue pink with a finny hanny border analysis

On page 91 of “Last Tram to Lime Street”, a romance novel set in Liverpool, one of the main characters, Nellie, says “yer’d end up buying...

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Some Heinlein quotes part 2

As previously mentioned ( here ), I have been searching for a Robert Heinlein (RAH) quote around the idea ‘make it idiot-proof and the wor...

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Building a better idiot part 2

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece on trying to find the source of the ‘make it idiot-proof and the world/universe will build a better id...

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Some Heinlein quotes part 1

In my search for the - potentially - Robert Heinlein ‘make it idiot-proof and the world/universe will build a better idiot’-style quote (w...

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Even more catchphrases!

Already it is time for another lot of catchphrases. Firstly, in the words of the old woman to the dodgy Knight from the The Wife of Bath...

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Sky blue pink with a finny hanny border reader comments

A long time ago, I posted a piece on the potential origins of a Geordie riposte to unanswerable questions from children: "sky blue pin...

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Catchphrases ride again!

Already it is time for another lot of catchphrases. Having written about these before ( here ), I continue to record those items I stumbled ...

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