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Word of the day:HendiadysThe use of two words joined by and to express a single idea. For example, nice and warm.From th...
24/08/2026

Word of the day:

Hendiadys

The use of two words joined by and to express a single idea.

For example, nice and warm.

From the Greek hen dia duoin, meaning ‘one thing by two’.

Why use one word when two will do?

Virginia Woolf argued that writers need financial independence and a room of their own.In 'A Room of One's Own' (1928), ...
05/08/2026

Virginia Woolf argued that writers need financial independence and a room of their own.

In 'A Room of One's Own' (1928), she put that figure at £500 a year.

In today's money, that's about £40,000.

That's it. That's the post.

30/07/2026

"The one most essential obstacle to the chance of success in all this was probably Lady Carbury's conviction that her end was to be obtained not by producing good books, but by inducing certain people to say that her books were good."

Anthony Trollope, "The Way We Live Now"

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26/07/2026

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Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky (1863)
04/07/2026

Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky (1863)

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