Archive - Lynne Murphy

Tons of fun, loads of sheds

This time: shedloads, shiploads and other loads of lexical goodness

Jun 3

April 2025

This newsletter contains gratuitous Saxons

This time: how to talk about medieval folk, a Style Guide obsession, and oodles of links.

Apr 27 •

March 2025

Tip in some verbs and bung it on the blog

This time: Recipe verbs, fashioncore and lots and lots of links!

Mar 23

February 2025

Which word is always misspelt?

This time: past-tense irregulars, more on 'please', and the WotYs never end...

Feb 22 •

January 2025

Every two fortnights or so...

This time: fortnight, landslide and more words of the year, plus a linkapalooza

Jan 19 •

Lynneguist has moved!

You'll now be getting Separated by a Common Newsletter from this address

Jan 8 •

December 2024

Beanie there, done that!

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Dec 22, 2024 •

Words of the Year, in stride

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Dec 2, 2024 •

October 2024

A giant leap for 'one of a kind'

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Oct 31, 2024 •

September 2024

Scoubidou, where are you?

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Sep 23, 2024 •

August 2024

Let's call the whole thing analogous

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Aug 30, 2024 •

July 2024

Where's the conflab?

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Jul 27, 2024 •

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