(b)logophile

Our research institute recently moved out of the centre of Amsterdam. While I miss the lunch options we used to have, one of the benefits of the new location is the view. My office looks out on a lake (I’m lucky in that; the other sides of the building point at a train track and [...]

A previous argument: “C for K, because the printers have not so many as the Welsh requireth.” A more recent argument: “Such a reform would diminish the number of letters about one sixteenth or eighteenth. This would save a page in eighteen; and a saving of an eighteenth in the expense of books, is an [...]

I’m having a debate with my southern hemisphere evil twin at the moment, about the merits of spelling reform. No conclusions to be expected, of course, but it’s leading to all sorts of delightful Wikipedia discoveries. Spontson glaber1 discovered in the OED the spelling “thrwch” for “through”, which put me in mind of Welsh. (By [...]