language
I’m not gonna lie, I hate the phrase I’m not gonna lie
Is the advance of technology really an advance?
The debt of thanks the battle against Covid owes to cows
Things that were wrong with all those election leaflets pushed through your door
Onomatopes, and other sizzling examples of sound symbolism
Does brain training really do you any good?
The 18 most useful Scots words with no direct English translation
My amazing hairstyle, my awesome lunch, and my refusal to change
Never say the words ‘should of’ anywhere near me!
Emojis, the unsqueezed plooks of online communication
A Scotch geezah oo cootn’t speak propah
Scots phrase ‘doing your dinger’ gains place in Oxford English Dictionary
READERS’ LETTERS: Gaelic has major role to play in Scottish communities
The truth about direction of spin when water goes down the plughole
ALEX BELL: ‘Morag wants a place to stay’ – but that’s a job for government, not Gaelic Duolingo
Badly constructed signs are a sign of our times
I strike a worthy blow in the battle for better grammar
No one in my book club likes me
What is a bull in a china shop expected to do?
Words to be read in the next millennium
A dyspeptic old pedant’s pernickety points and privatisms
Things I thought were true that aren’t true
The shame of admitting my unfair and unreasonable prejudices