...but who has been working Boris up into this state of paranoia? Surely suspicion must fall on the only person who sees him once a week with no others ever present :-) (View Post)

It is of course purely coincidental that the type of more sensible candidate Major would presumably favour is likely to do poorly at the member's ballot stage :-) (View Post)

"now" ? (View Post)

This is a great book, incidentally, if you like popular linguistics and language and you spend time on the internet. Strongly recommended. (I am an Old Internet Person by her classification.) (View Post)

There are no rules, but there are conventions and consensus that build up among language-using communities. If you deviate from the consensus in the group of people you talk to, then you can expect t… (View Post)