“Drivers! Don’t forget to drop the pantograph!” I don’t know what it means, but this sign at London’s Farringdon Station sounds important and magical. It’s a large white sign at …
How do you pronounce “niche”? If you say “nitch”, to rhyme with “kitsch”, you’re probably from the US. If you say “neesh”, to rhyme with “quiche”, you’re in the company …
I’m not a morning person. There are only two things that make me get up on time: fear that everything will go horribly wrong if I don’t (catching flights, last …
By far the most frequently asked question about SciBarCamb (or about SciBarCamp with a p) is “Bar?” and the answer is long. So long, that it takes several minutes to …
After 6.5 years in Canadaland, I forgot that I learned some new words while here. Not many – about 2 per year – and most of them Canadian or otherwise …
My inner language geek (see also the previous post) is thrilled to bits with the discovery that Blood articles from the fifties and sixties contain a summary written in the …
