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quuxplusone.github.io
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| | | | | Previously: "A poem all in dactylic noun substantives, part 1" (2025-08-28). Cervantes wrote satirically of a poet who had written- "that part of the history of King Arthur of England which Archbishop Turpin left unwritten, together with the history of the quest of the Holy Grail; and all in heroic verse, part in rhymes and part in blank verse; but entirely dactylically-I mean in dactylic noun substantives, without admitting any verb whatsoever." Over on Literature StackExchange, Clara Díaz Sánchez explains that in the late 16th and early 17th century, there was in fact a fad for poetry in which many lines ended in dactyls. | |
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dgarygrady.com
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| | | | | In the not-too-distant past English used the pronoun "him" to refer to individuals of unspecified gender in phrases such as "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion." This understandably annoys som... | |
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www.arrantpedantry.com
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| | | | | A correspondent named Jitendra Pant recently asked me to elaborate on the etymology of whole: Dear Jonathon, I am wondering why whole has a spelling beginning with 'w' and not just R... | |
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