Category: Miscellaneous

why ‘Sumer is icumen in’ doesn’t mean what it seems

Wasn’t Commander Tim an Equerry when Princess Anne first came across him? Presumably going from Equerry to Aide-de-Camp is yet another promotion, or so we must hope. If it is, not many people know that.

About royal harpists

Some signs and stickers from California

Mangling our beautiful language

George Carey’s memoirs reflections on whether Charles will marry Camilla

The real meaning of “honoured in the breach”

More linguistic horrors: peninsula/-ar; media is; data and agenda; singular subjects with plural verbs, and vice versa; a dead clich? and two persistent misconceptions.

A night at the Royal Festival Hall with Alistair Campbell: a colossal ego trip before an adoring audience, but a good night out.