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Endearing peculiarities of the English language #31:
He’s quite mad.
A simple declarative statement of three words which can mean two completely and importantly different things:

Time was, I groaned at the sight of an erroneous it’s, but it’s so commonplace now the fun’s gone out of it. The barbarians have long since stormed the citadel; ignorance has won the day. Indeed, there’s hardly anyone left who knows their its from their...

With the morris dancing scuppered by the storm, I did what any rational human would do – hunkered down with old b/w movies on the telly – specifically, 1940’s Pride & Prejudice, with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson.
I’m always interested by what you might call meta-messaging – the implicit messages that can be discerned beneath the ostensibles, if you’re that way minded. Films made during the war often make interesting examples. I was struck by the exchange between...

Took my recent Sebastião kick into town yesterday…
God & iron – on these was an empire forged.
Blade Runnerland, AKA the Jubilee Line.