Athelstone

Just so.

Hah, that did occur to me. Hardly a day went by from the late 50s to the 80s when somewhere on television, radio, or simply in conversation, the word nuclear didn’t crop up.

Pronunciation is a curious thing. I expect the list is very long and finds a home amongst both the well-heeled and the down-at-heel. So we have Magdalen College Oxford which we are admonished to pronounce in the medieval way “Maudlin”. This pronunciation evolved over time, but at least the middle-English speakers had the sense to spell it…[Read more]

It’s one of those words. I hear it mispronounced almost as often as it is pronounced correctly. The curious thing about it is that it really only has two parts, both of which are simple word-sounds in their own right: new and clear. I even hear people who work closely with things nu-cue-ler get it wrong.
There’s a theory that the British, and a…[Read more]

Purely to dispel all doubt: https://evllabs.github.io/JGAAP/
And, no, I won’t really use it

I will, of course, be using JGAAP on every entry. No Camilla Läckberg disputes here, thank you very much!

Sorry to hear it. It is remarkably adept at confounding all good intentions to write.

Janette, do you mean a real black dog, or black dog in the metaphorical sense?

Mind you, I’m still puffing away a good stretch back from the finish line 🙂

I can see some similarities there. I started around then as well. You were a couple of years ahead of me on the age front, but it seems we picked up our pen and paper about the same time.

Must feel wonderful, John. It’s been a long trip!

Every so often when I have a look to make sure everything’s still working, I spot the “like” statistics. It comes from the people who make the app and I suppose they want to show that it has lots of features. All just for fun though.