OddThinking

Can you come up with two different words (spelling irrelevant but different meanings) which are pronounced exactly the same except that the “th” sound is voiced in one and not in the other?

Deep down I fear that one day, I will be outed.

Despite my best efforts to bleat reassurances that I believe that the English language is fluid and changing, and there is no point pretending that there is one correct way to speak it, some linguist is one day going to point at me and yell “Hey! Wait a minute! He’s not a descriptivist! He’s a damn prescriptivist! Get him!”

A very brief examination of the PyGame 1.8 car-wreck.

At uni, my friend, Karen, ran up to me. “Come with us to the airport! Stephanie is coming back from a long trip to the UK, and we are all going to greet here!”

In what direction does the sun set?

A note to the would-be pedant at Dallas-Fort Worth airport.

A number of free-form, non-traditional odes, written upon my return to my home after several weeks of travelling.

I will be travelling to the United States soon, for the first time in many years. I am surprised at the strength of my objections to one small inconvenience being foisted upon me during my journey.

“She sells sea-shells by the sea-shore.”

Err… Thanks, but no thanks. I’m fine for sea-shells at the moment.

In which Julian explores his biggest source of data loss.