Some Words We Lost Down the Back of the Couch
If I could give one thing to America, it would be a gift basket of words it has forgotten it ever had.
If I could give one thing to America, it would be a gift basket of words it has forgotten it ever had.
I’m a city girl. I love live music, good coffee and public transport. I don’t like driving in the city – there are too many people with too many destinations and too much else on their mind. In the country, it’s different. Though I have often traveled with my loved ones, driving is a solitary activity. It’s just…
Last night, I spent 4 minutes writing a short piece of dialogue. Seconds later, an editor halfway across the world was reading it out on YouTube. Welcome to the awesome and surreal world of the digital writers’ festival.
OK is a very strange word with an even stranger history. How did it become such a giant in world trading vocabulary?
While I’d redeveloped a number of websites in my time, I’ve never started from nothing before I launched this site last August. This was my process.
Oh, that hurt. I have Americanized my website, swapping esses for zees, swapping licence for license and removing that all-important letter u from color.