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I’ve never used AI to help me write or edit.
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A railway tannoy announces: ‘We kindly ask you to place your litter in the bins provided.’
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The standard rule on pronouns that end in -self or -selves, set out in grammar books from Lowth (1762) to Whitney (1885) to Jespersen (1933) to Quirk (1985) to Garner (2022), is that they are for reflexive use, when subject and object are the same: ‘they…
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Yes, that’s right.
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Kenneth Williams would have been 100 yesterday, so I found myself thinking about one of the finest puns in cinematic history: his line in Carry On Cleo, ‘Infamy!
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Among the many dazzling quotes that have been circulating since Tom Stoppard’s death, this one caught my eye.
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Rhyl Sands by David Cox, 1854.
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(With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan) I am the largest language model anyone could ever need I’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever read I’ll answer any question with great eloquence and attitude As long as you indulge me with a litt…
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I was listening to some of the statements made by Winston Churchill on VE Day in 1945, and this short passage, delivered from the Ministry of Health building in London, drew the attention of my inner grammar nerd (who, to be frank, is not really all that…
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Twice in the last week I’ve been struck by people citing supposed rules of English usage that differ from my own understanding.