December 14, 2009
A user of the Macmillan Dictionary has sent in a query about the meaning of a word that was new to me:
I am looking for the meaning of ‘fruitloops‘ as Debora Shuger uses it in her Political Theologies in Shakespeare’s England. ‘… the play wrestles with a law that seems basically fruitloops‘ says she.
I’m always [...]
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November 17, 2009
I have recently been asked why we say years the way we do. Why, for example, do we say nineteen hundred (1900) but two thousand (2000)? The recently released film 2012 (pronounced twenty twelve) has highlighted this question. ‘What will happen in the 22nd century?’, the questioner continued. ‘Will we be saying twenty one hundred [...]
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