Best thing about that clip: Lister's pronunciation of 'croissant' as 'crassont'. I'd always found the French pronunciation terribly unsatisfactory. I will adopt Lister&#… (View Post)

When I went to the Netherlands I was fascinated by the prevalence of the grocer's apostrophe. It was everywhere. On further research, it became apparent that the role of the apostrophe in Dutch … (View Post)

Yes, I've taken autocorrect off. I'd rather people think me a clumsy typer than someone who can't apostrophise correctly. (View Post)

My mental image of @DecrepiterJohnL is now this: (View Post)

Left wing riots (in the USA, at least) are alarming because they are aimrd at stopping society functioning. The right wing ones (ones? I only remember Jan 6th, tbh) are alarmimg because they have bee… (View Post)