Tag Archives: language

What I did in the holidays

What I did in the holidays

For the retired person life is one long holiday, and so last summer I decided to ‘do something different’. I got a job. Against all odds, I managed to persuade one of Britain’s most prestigious univer ...
A letter from Susan Rugg – Completely gruntled

A letter from Susan Rugg – Completely gruntled

RE the correspondence about language, there is actually a word ‘ gruntled ’, defined in my 2011 edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary as a humorous word meaning pleased or satisfied, and coined in ...