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 14	revised	Is “gonna have to” an Americanism? deleted 8 characters in body
Apr 13	revised	Why do people say “that-a-way” instead of “that way”? added 40 characters in body
Apr 12	revised	“[adjective] and [adjective] [noun]” — Should the noun be singular or plural? added 10 characters in body
Apr 12	revised	Positions of “of which” added 349 characters in body
Apr 10	revised	Is the structure “can have verb-ed” possible? added 22 characters in body
Apr 6	revised	Are These Words Interchangeable? added 1 characters in body
Apr 4	revised	What do I call someone I hire to do my personal work for me? deleted 2 characters in body
Mar 24	revised	Why is this marked ungrammatical? added 2 characters in body
Mar 17	revised	“Ride a bicycle” or “ride on bicycle”? edited title
Mar 16	revised	Is 'that' necessary for this sentence? deleted 51 characters in body
Mar 5	revised	Which preposition goes with the word “altar”? edited body; edited title
Mar 2	revised	Meaning of “no man is an island, entire by itself” added 30 characters in body
Mar 2	revised	I don't know which boy? added 27 characters in body
Mar 2	revised	I don't know which boy? added 17 characters in body
Feb 20	revised	“Give the real temperature” vs. “give real temperature” added 2 characters in body
Feb 20	revised	Special name for royal titles? added 1 characters in body
Feb 19	revised	With “I bid you farewell” being a normal phrase, would the phrase “I bid you sleep well” also be correct? added 146 characters in body
Feb 18	revised	What is the meaning of “at its discretion”? edited title
Feb 18	revised	Is the prepositional phrase possibly called a subject complement? added 19 characters in body
Feb 18	revised	“much too [something]” vs “too much [something]” added 11 characters in body