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on nothing. IMAGINEWEDSTILLWRITEWITHOUTSPACESLIKEBACKINTHEDAYSOFTHEGREEKSANDROMANSTEXTWOULDBESOHARDTOREADANDTAKELONGTODECIPHER...
ma(r)king time It’s the end of April and technically, it’s supposed to be a time for planting and...
book rec klaxon! It’s dreamy, it’s gorgeous, and it’s precisely what you need if you’re feeling like...
Hurray! It’s exclamation day! Last week, we celebrated international Women’s Day, today it’s *drum...
What’s in a name? THAT A BRACKET BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SECTION MATTER OFF? So, here’s a secret...
what’s love got to do with emojis??? Yep, that’s exactly what it is. Valentine’s Day. If you’ve...
fortnightly writing workshops ~self-healing through journalling ~ Sticks and stones, as the proverb says,...
women in love ~Reading Women, Writing Women ~ For thousands of years, love poetry has been written...
poetry& creative writing workshop ‘By the Universe deserted,she’d tell it to go to hell,and...
Detailed description below. Since September, the nights have been getting longer, swallowing up more...
Detailed dscription below poster. Two faces doesn’t always mean two-faced: in ancient Rome, the god Janus...
Exclamation Point, Exclamation Mark – Potato Potato? What’s in a name? Juliet asks, continuing...
spooooky punctuatiooooon! Today is the 31st of October, so it’s that very special time of year. It’s...
shouty titles!!! What’s the easiest way to get attention? Slab a ! at the end of your words. Preferably...
Ready for rish? How ! can get you the job. or not. Three Prime Ministers within three months (two months,...
Is this the worst? Well, it’s certainly great semicolon use! Shakespeare’s infamously hopeless...
of faces and fonts I gave a paper yesterday at Geneva University where I did a postdoc on Shakespeare...
Hyphen Confusion (or should that be ‘hyphen-confusion’?) Recently, our old neglected friend...
Signs of Resistance: punctuation politics in nineteenth-century arabic I recently introduced myself to...
In a previous post, I wrote about how we are using fewer and fewer hyphens these days. But going...
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