Newsletters
We send out 'newsletters' on a more-or-less monthly basis. They seldom
contain anything that would qualify as news. Rather, they tend to contain
things we're come across that we feel may
entertain, amuse,
intrigue. Anyone can subscribe, and
'Remove' requests are always honoured.
To give just a brief flavour, here's
September '04:
"We
were fortunate enough recently to be introduced to the work of New
Zealand (ex-Cambridge) journalist, Joe Bennett, who among many
other things takes great delight in laying into those reasonable folk
who periodically call for English to be made more phonetic. Charging
them with 'an innocent arrogance', he writes: 'Not only would the
simplification of language distance the language from its roots, more
importantly still it would sever the people of tomorrow from the wisdom
of yesterday'. Arguing further that the acknowledged vigour and
richness of English can be attributed directly to the
diversity of its roots (and the histories they embody), from Anglo-Saxon
through Latin to Hindi, he points out that: 'Through does not rhyme with
though, nor with cough or bough or enough or thorough. I find that
delightful.' Who could find otherwise?"
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