Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Mind your language

Mind your language

I'm no pedant, but...

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The Scream, by Terry Freedman, with apologies to Munch

The following article is an updated version of two articles published in 2019 and 2020.

The English language is very rich. With around 170,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, there’s a word for just abut everything. Indeed, As Richard Nilsen writes:

When you develop a ripe vocabulary, you learn…

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