Wordlady

  It seems to me that popular public figures, places, and things are more and more described as "beloved". I am not talking about ...

  Lower Slaughter Following my post about Sutton Hoo , many of you wrote in to share your favourite British place names, so I thought I woul...

Many of you have been watching The Dig , the movie starring Ralph Fiennes and  Carey Mulligan on Netflix about the Anglo-Saxon archeologica...

    When I was a kid I loved to go tobogganing. My siblings and I would take a toboggan like the one pictured above to our local park and hu...

  I can't think why, but this week I have decided to talk about the word "mob", a disorderly or riotous crowd, a rabble. Surpr...

    As always at the New Year, it is interesting to see some words that are celebrating their hundredth birthday, some older than you think ...

  The news is all about the new COVID-19 vaccines. Thank God (and armies of scientists) for them. But have you noticed that while we in Nort...