Monthly Archives: November 2008

An article in The Independent on 22 November 2008 includes this sentence: “The US is in a sitting duck administration until Barack Obama can take office in January.” Yesterday I heard a broadcaster say that someone would have to “pay … Continue reading →

Athel Cornish-Bowden asks, in a comment under the post on English spelling reform, if Spanish spelling has remained constant over hundreds of years, as his Spanish host claimed a few weeks ago. Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. We … Continue reading →