https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2012/04/on-for-example-for-instance.html?showComment=1333541864467&m=0
DCblog: On for example, for instance
A correspondent writes to ask whether there is any difference between for example and for instance . I think most people use these as styli...
for exampledcbloginstance
https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2010/11/on-shakespeare-being-irish.html?showComment=1293134165872&m=0
DCblog: On Shakespeare being Irish
A correspondent writes to ask what I think of Rod Liddle's piece in this week's Sunday Times . It was headed 'Irish bard? You're taking the ...
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https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2007/06/on-imaginary-pronunciations.html?showComment=1182001980000
DCblog: On imaginary pronunciations
A correspondent writes to ask if there is a term to describe the situation when someone insists that two words should be pronounced differen...
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https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2013/09/on-not-very-bright-grammar-test.html?showComment=1378983121474
DCblog: On a not very bright grammar test
An English-teacher correspondent in the UK writes to tell me a very worrying - but totally to be expected - story emerging from the Key St...
on adcblogbrightgrammartest
https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-mouth-filled-speech.html?showComment=1309872342240&m=0
DCblog: On mouth-filled speech
A correspondent writes with an enquiry that needs to be quoted in full: 'This morning I tried simultaneously to brush my teeth and talk. I ...
dcblogmouthfilledspeech
https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2013/11/on-tour-twice.html?showComment=1384243128294&m=0
DCblog: On tour (twice)
A blog silence always means Something Is Up. And internet time seems to move faster than time in the real world. 'It's been a lifetime since...
on tourdcblogtwice
https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2011/08/on-marley-and-mei.html?showComment=1523284470437&m=0
DCblog: On 'Marley and me/I'
A correspondent writes with a query about the title of the book and film Marley And Me . He notes that some people think it should be Marley...
marley and medcblog
https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-skyfall.html?showComment=1320662905678
DCblog: On skyfall
A correspondent from BBC Radio 4's Front Row calls to ask whether I have any views about the name of the new James Bond movie, Skyfall . Had...
dcblogskyfall
https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2006/12/on-not-being-italian-dj.html?m=0
DCblog: On not being an Italian dj
Someone writes to say they typed 'david crystal blog' into Google and found themselves on the coolest electro- techno- progressive dj site e...
dcblogitaliandj
https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2008/10/
DCblog: October 2008
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https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2013/09/on-not-very-bright-grammar-test.html?showComment=1379092120669&m=0
DCblog: On a not very bright grammar test
An English-teacher correspondent in the UK writes to tell me a very worrying - but totally to be expected - story emerging from the Key St...
on adcblogbrightgrammartest
https://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2007/09/?m=0
DCblog: September 2007
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