Barrie England

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I have spent most of my career in government service, much of it abroad. I have a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and the Diploma in English Language Studies from the UK's Open University, and am qualified as a teacher of English to foreign learners. I have studied several other languages including French, German, Latin, Arabic and Old and Middle English.

My blog, Caxton, is mostly, but not entirely, about the English language.

Elsewhere on the web I have attempted to write in the constrained style of the 'Ouvroir de littérature potentielle' (OULIPO) in Variations on an Incident in Paris and in Variations on Jane Austen. I have also created a full set of 256 Syllogisms by figure and mood and showing which are valid and which are not.

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Apr 13	revised	Why do people say “that-a-way” instead of “that way”? added 40 characters in body
Apr 13	comment	Why do people say “that-a-way” instead of “that way”? @Robusto. Yes, looks like a previous use. OP may like to transfer the acceptance. Is that possible?
Apr 13	comment	“work as a journalist on/at a magazine” Not even 'He was on the Wall Street Journal' for five years'?
Apr 13	comment	“work as a journalist on/at a magazine” In the UK, we can say that a journalist worked on 'The Times' for five years meaning that the journalist was employed by the newspapaper.
Apr 13	awarded	Enlightened
Apr 13	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 13	answered	A word for a “cleaning schedule”
Apr 13	awarded	grammatical-number
Apr 12	comment	Meaning of “candle” in “I now call to mind that there was a letter in the candle three days ago” ‘The Trumpet-Major’ was published in 1880. Contemporary readers would have known more about candles and their associations than we do.
Apr 12	comment	Meaning of “candle” in “I now call to mind that there was a letter in the candle three days ago” @KitFox♦. It seems so.
Apr 12	answered	Meaning of “candle” in “I now call to mind that there was a letter in the candle three days ago”
Apr 12	comment	“[adjective] and [adjective] [noun]” — Should the noun be singular or plural? @John Lawler. Thank you, John. That's what I intended to say. Now edited.
Apr 12	revised	“[adjective] and [adjective] [noun]” — Should the noun be singular or plural? added 10 characters in body
Apr 12	comment	Stress in “control” word +1. There may be others like control that have the same stress as verb and noun, but I can't think of any.
Apr 12	answered	Why do people say “that-a-way” instead of “that way”?
Apr 12	comment	Positions of “of which” I hope that the edit I have just made to my answer will make it a little clearer.
Apr 12	revised	Positions of “of which” added 349 characters in body
Apr 12	comment	Positions of “of which” @Pietros. Exactly. You ask for the sum of money the bag contains (the contents), not for the sum of the bag itself.
Apr 12	answered	Positions of “of which”
Apr 12	answered	“[adjective] and [adjective] [noun]” — Should the noun be singular or plural?